Government plans to allow developers to build shoebox apartments with no minimum floor area or balcony requirements are being slammed by building experts.

The Government is set to remove restrictions and make it more attractive to build houses, townhouses and tiny shoebox apartments.

In the first part of this year, almost ten thousand new migrants a month were making Auckland home yet just 1600 homes every month were completed.

But AUT’s professor of construction, John Tookey, says the small apartments could generate some "absolutely squalid" living conditions.

He joins me from sunny Rarotonga to tell me how it will affect our cities.

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