Williams PotoPOTO WILLIAMS (Labour—Christchurch East): I want to concentrate my contribution on new clause 50U(1) which looks at the Housing New Zealand Corporation being responsible for managing the development of affordable housing under the plan. I have been the beneficiary of the way that Housing New Zealand Corporation used to be under a Labour Government. What I mean by that is that in those days Housing New Zealand had at its heart the desire to not only house people but help people and communities develop communities. The way that it did that was it included within its mandate the ability to have community housing which allowed community organisations to benefit from the housing programme put in place by the Government and to have access to housing for community groups. What this amendment in this particular clause does is that it requires the corporation to once again become the heart of community development as it once was. Not only will this look at providing affordable housing; it will also look at providing appropriate housing.During the homelessness inquiry that has been around the country one of the overriding concerns that has come out of this is that the housing we are currently building is four-bedroom executive homes when what we actually need are one- and two-bedroom homes. We need modest housing. We need housing that will help us to house the elderly and to house people who are single and single-parent families. We have this overburden of these large houses. We have a surplus almost of bedrooms when what we actually need is much more appropriate housing of a kind that will suit the needs of our communities.What this Government has done over the last 8 years is to not only scale-back that involvement of communities of them being to participate with Housing New Zealand to develop in consultation and cooperation the types of housing that they need for their communities but actually do something a lot more sinister: it has actually taken the community out of its programme. When we look at the removal of the four well-beings out of the requirements for local government it really speaks to the heart of what sits in this bill and why we oppose this bill and why we are supporting Part 3. We need to put communities back into our housing plans.I want to use the example of what happened in my own community in Aranui where at one stage Housing New Zealand was proposing some redevelopment of homes. The community got engaged in that discussion and helped it to design homes that were fit for purpose—one- and two-bedroom homes single access and with garages which were really useful for elderly people. In the latest iteration of developments by Housing New Zealand into that same community when the community asked for consultation to be part of the process it was denied the ability to effect any change to the plans that Housing New Zealand was making in that community. What that has resulted in is an intensive development that has gone into the Aranui community of two-storey homes with several homes on what were the properties of one or two which have now become developments of four five or six and there are single accesses into these large groups of homes. They are a complete anathema to the way that this community wanted those homes to be because there was a lack of consultation.All through this discussion all through this debate there has been this thought that consultation should sit at the heart of when we are making such significant changes. That is no different to when we are looking at new Part 3 how we want our communities to develop. There is no doubt that good housing affordable housing and appropriate housing is actually the way we develop our strong communities. I would urge the Government to support this because this is the way we are going to build our strong communities where people know that they are able to stay in the same house night after night and where they have security of tenure.