Tauranga's being told to stop playing around, and fix the city's housing unaffordability

It's the eighth least affordable city in the world relative to incomes, with the median house price more than nine times a year's income ... even worse than Auckland.

The Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey co-author, Hugh Pavletich says the local council isn't taking its housing problems as seriously as it warrants.

He says unaffordable housing creates all sorts of problems - and access to it is a human right.

Pavletich says it's only getting worse... and the ratio of income to prices in such a small city is obscene.