Mrs Nidd sat on a mayoral taskforce looking at housing issues in Dunedin alongside Mr McKenzie.

Since the briefing, Foster has set up a mayoral taskforce to help address and monitor the issues.

A mayoral taskforce formed to tackle affordability in the district set a goal of building 1000 affordable homes in the next decade.

A mayoral taskforce set up to investigate the issue needed to quickly work out what was going wrong and find solutions, she said.

Rose, who sat on the council's tourism and short-term recovery mayoral taskforce, said the trans-Tasman border was the key to the district's recovery.

Analysis - The country's biggest home owner and rental landlord, Housing New Zealand, has chosen to sidestep Auckland's Mayoral Taskforce on Housing Supply.