Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): Well I'm going to try and avert my eyes from being whipped! I've got 10 minutes. I'm pleased to even hear the Opposition—although I don't know; have we managed to bring them to actually use the words housing crisis" yet? They didn't last term. I think they're saying "issues". We got them to "issues". I'm pleased to hear at least some collective acknowledgment across the House of the mass profound problem and crisis that we are facing.Angie Warren-Clark: That's right.MARAMA DAVIDSON: Yeah. Well we haven't quite got to "crisis" for all of us in this House but we'll get there. Yeah we'll get there—"issues" is a step. It is dire and profound and we need to do all we can. It is wicked it is dynamic and we need to do all we can to try and fix this. This the Kāinga Ora—Homes and Communities Bill is working to mainstream to pull together the development capacity of Government and to work in partnership to try and have a coordinated and streamlined approach to be able to have an overview of where we need to be building how what kind of homes and communities how we will do it with the community—that's key; that's absolutely key—and a range of issues.Let me just begin by acknowledging very briefly what the bill is trying to do. As I said it pulls together urban development authority into a work stream. In effect it is setting up the housing and urban development agency pulling together Housing New Zealand HLC and most of the KiwiBuild unit as I said to try and get this overview and coordinated strategic approach.So it's clear we need to do things differently and we absolutely need to set some certainty and sense of security for community for community housing providers for iwi housing providers for the construction industry and for contractors—industry-wide actually. We need to set this security and certainty and also be clear with just ordinary folk actually that we're on this that we admit and acknowledge that this is a huge issue—Kiritapu Allan: Hear hear!MARAMA DAVIDSON: —and we are—ha ha! The member Kiritapu Allan is motivating me to no end! It's fabulous—it's fabulous. A few of us did not see the House for only a few hours between last night and this morning.So the challenges: industry capacity and certainty climate change environmental degradation. How do we build in a way that maximises how we want to protect our environment but also understands that we've got to build more and we have got to do it in a way that is sustainable? We are facing challenges of affordability not just of homes—whether it's mortgages whether it's buying a home or renting a home—but also the affordability of the types of homes our people live in and whether they can afford to heat them or maintain them or stay healthy in them. We are facing challenges of security of tenure and that is not just if people are renting or leasing; that is also people who are on precarious employment conditions and salaries and/or wages and incomes including benefit incomes who are not sure for how long they are going to afford living in their homes.We have challenges of social licence where any developments that we face come under as they should scrutiny from communities and we are looking for a way to have those conversations so that two three five years into the plans we don't come across some blocks—that we have cleared the way with our communities with our ordinary folk to get a sense of taking us all together in building more homes. We have got the challenge of health of homes not being up to scratch today to be able to keep kids out of hospital to be able to keep our elderly safe and well. We are facing the challenge of accessible homes so that we universally can access our homes and they are appropriate—we can get into the bathroom and the shower depending on what level of mobility we have—Angie Warren-Clark: What age we are.MARAMA DAVIDSON: —or whether we—absolutely—can move between levels in multilevel homes.We are facing the challenge of being able to appropriately respond to diverse needs. That includes multigenerational—I've got four generations in my whare at the moment. We are facing the challenge of multigenerational and diverse needs and the responses and the types of homes—well not just the types of homes; the types of communities that we are needing to think about with a modern future type of joined-up thinking to be able to set this country on the right path. We have not been on the right path yet. We have plonked buildings on pieces of land ad hoc. That's as far as the strategic planning went: let's plonk a house there let's plonk a house there.We need to connect our communities with linked-up affordable efficient public transport routes. We need to and this is why the bill addresses it make sure we are building with social licence—building with social licence. I see the select committee wanted to make explicit the community engagement mention—that's great. Social licence includes Māori interests and the Treaty of Waitangi being upheld. When we work with communities including with Māori the results are fantastic and this Government understands that there—oh look I've done well—are actually groups who have been doing this well who have been able to build affordable healthy well-designed homes and communities and we recognise that we can work with their expertise and their experience. We need to understand that part of the construction industry and building industry barriers were about building the wrong sizes and types of homes and so that's why Government has to take a role because the Government will be able to lead—with community providers with not-for-profits—to build those right types and sizes of homes that the market simply wasn't able to. That's where we ran into some trouble as well: contractors were undercutting themselves and ended up flourishing quite a bit from that. That's why a Government-backed—well what is that? That's where a public-good focus has to come in and that's how we will get the ball rolling to provide the right sized homes and the right designed communities. So the Greens support this and we look forward to continuing to contribute the principles the criteria the guidelines that we all need so that we don't have to face this in another what 30 40 years and go "Whoops we weren't thinking long enough. We weren't thinking far out enough." So the Greens absolutely look forward to—and continuing to work with our Ministers across the House to help give us the most enduring and sustainable plans that we can come up with. Thank you. I got there."