Davidson MaramaMARAMA DAVIDSON (Green): I hosted a housing and homelessness meeting in Manurewa on Monday night. We had a great turnout of locals on a cold night in a community that does not trust our current political processes. The locals are asking where all their emergency funding has gone—the $300 million that Minister Paula Bennett was so proud of when she announced it. It has not really made it out to my 'hood.There has been a sharp increase in the number of people whom our local community is having to step up and feed and clothe. A man died on the steps of our local church less than 3 weeks ago. We are talking about Manurewa here. People are having trouble accessing help for their medical needs so that they can heal sores and preventable illnesses—illnesses that should not be a part of our country today. The locals are calling for a night cafe—Hon Member: It's free.MARAMA DAVIDSON: —at the least where people can come and have a warm place to be and have food and drink and somewhere to put their blankets—a place to be welcomed and humanised. Although my colleague points out that there are free medical centres well it is not happening in Manurewa. So what is going wrong there? Medical centres are still charging. I want to acknowledge local community worker Debbie Monroe who for 4 years has been having to step up and feed and clothe and befriend the people sleeping rough on our streets because of this Government's failure to provide adequate housing. On Sunday night I visited a camping ground in west Auckland and I saw some things including a family of three living in a cabin room less than half the size of the average MP's office in this precinct.Hon Maggie Barry: Stop shouting.MARAMA DAVIDSON: I will shout. I will shout about this. I will shout about a family of three living in a cabin less than half the size of what you and I work in every single day. The father went to pains to tell me that he came from a background of running a business having capital and machinery and owning land and through life situations he has found himself living in this undignified situation. He has refused to ask for help from anybody or from the Government because he is embarrassed and ashamed of having to do that.That shame is the shame that has happened to this country. It has poisoned our country for too long. This is the shame that has insisted that poor people are to blame for their misfortune and that they are undeserving of our support. While the Minister does not want me to shout I am feeling their voices and I am trying to make them heard. So I will stand in this House and talk about the things I know and see and I am sorry if people have a problem with how loudly I do it.Whatever response this Government has about whatever the good things are that are happening it cannot spin away what is also happening. This is not our country. We know this Government has done this. It has created these harmful undignified situations for our people. It is talking about being stable but this is not stability. It is talking about belief. Can we at least agree to believe that there is a housing crisis? Can we come together in this House and even say the words housing crisis"? Can we withstand the discomfort when our own privilege meets us squarely in the eyes while we listen to our people our citizens tell us their stories from the shabby dark truth of a gross caravan? Can we stand in the Work and Income lines which bend around two corners and can we be leaders and stand for the fact that these are just ordinary people who are trying to do the best they can with very little? Can we take the leadership of Metiria Turei and offer the vision and the plans to fix this?I ask you all if you are not prepared to stand to fix this then what are you doing here? Thank you."