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This 1.6ha vacant site at 80 Don McKinnon Drive in Albany is back on the market eight years after it was purchased by Kāinga Ora for nearly $20 million for social housing.

A large vacant site purchased by Kāinga Ora eight years ago for nearly $20 million with grand plans for a “twin towers” housing development is back on the market without a single house being built and more than $1.2m of taxpayer dollars sunk on the defunct project.

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