Never mind the ‘quakes–the real problem is the bureauleeches.

‘An annual international survey on house prices is pointing to difficulties in the post-earthquake rebuilding of Christchurch as an example of failed urban governance and planning.
……..Christchurch had already been “on its knees” in development and construction terms at the time of the first earthquake in September 2010, due to a seriously dysfunctional local authority that, in deliberately withholding fringe land supply, allowed a housing bubble to start in 2002…’