5. Question No. 5—Housing and Urban DevelopmentHon JUDITH COLLINS (National—Papakura) to the Minister of Housing and Urban DevelopmentQuestion No. 5—Housing and Urban Development5. Hon JUDITH COLLINS (National—Papakura) to the Minister of Housing and Urban Development: Does Housing New Zealand own or lease any rental houses in the entire McLennan development where the first of 18 KiwiBuild houses have been built; if so how many?Hon PHIL TWYFORD (Minister of Housing and Urban Development): The previous Government limited State houses to 15 percent of the total number of houses in Housing New Zealand's McLennan development. This meant that when private developers couldn't get finance to build market homes in the third stage of the development Housing New Zealand was left unable to build more State houses and so was stuck with empty land. Fortunately KiwiBuild enabled Housing New Zealand to build affordable homes and sell them to first-home buyers such as the lovely families that the Prime Minister and I met on Saturday. There are 28 State houses in the McLennan development with a further 48 State homes to be built and in keeping with Housing New Zealand's new design philosophy they are visually indistinguishable from the KiwiBuild and market homes.Hon Judith Collins: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. The question was put down on notice. I asked for the entire McLennan development which I understand has around 600 homes and I'd like the Minister to please address the question which was how many of those homes are owned or leased by the State.SPEAKER: Well he did. He said 28.Hon Judith Collins: No he said 28 out of 40 homes—or something; 28 homes entirely. There are 600 homes in that development. He hasn't answered the question.SPEAKER: Well the member said that there were 28 State homes.Hon Judith Collins: In the entire 600—OK. Is the Minister aware of any security complaints that have been made by Housing New Zealand tenants in McLennan?Hon PHIL TWYFORD: No.Hon Judith Collins: Is it acceptable that Housing New Zealand has refused to allow a tenant in the McLennan development to have her locksmith of choice replace outdoor locks on her property after her home has been burgled three times in two weeks with the latest burglary defined by police as aggravated burglary with intent to rape"? Hon PHIL TWYFORD: That is an operational matter for Housing New Zealand but I'm very happy to receive the details of that case either from the member's constituent or the member herself and I'll happily look into it.Hon Judith Collins: Is the Minister aware that following the burglary with intent to rape Housing New Zealand have still advised the tenant that if she replaces the locking system on her house Housing New Zealand will not pay for it?Hon PHIL TWYFORD: No.Marja Lubeck: What have been the recent trends in Housing New Zealand - owned or leased homes? Hon PHIL TWYFORD: The number of Housing New Zealand homes reduced by more than 6000 over the last nine years. In fact public housing declined from 4 percent of the entire national housing stock down to 3.4 percent in 2017 at a time when the general population ballooned and the housing crisis was created. We've turned this around. We've ended the mass sell-off of State housing that took place under the Government—SPEAKER: Order! I was waiting for some slightly relevant area that wasn't an attack on the Opposition and out of order. It appears we're not going to get one. Hon Judith Collins: Thank you Mr Speaker. What urgent auditing of failing locking systems in the McLennan development has been undertaken by Housing New Zealand since Housing New Zealand was alerted of the fault two weeks ago?Hon PHIL TWYFORD: I'm happy to find out and I'll let the member know.Marja Lubeck: Why is the Government building KiwiBuild homes at McLennan?Hon PHIL TWYFORD: Well we are building KiwiBuild homes at McLennan because a generation of young New Zealanders with good jobs are priced out of homeownership because of the housing crisis that we inherited. The families at McLennan represent many of the areas of the workforce including nurses warehouse workers concrete workers a medical student administration workers engineers designers and stay-at-home mums. KiwiBuild aims to increase homeownership to increase the number of homes that are being built at an affordable price point and to use Government procurement to drive down build costs. Only 5 percent—SPEAKER: Order! That's enough. Thank you.Marja Lubeck: Why does the Government need to build both State homes and KiwiBuild?SPEAKER: Without being retrospective.Hon PHIL TWYFORD: The answer is that we need to build both State and KiwiBuild homes to build our way out of the national housing crisis. There are more than 1200 more public housing tenancies than there were a year ago—1200 more—and 451 more over the September quarter alone. Budget 2018 funded more than 6400 additional public houses over four years and Housing New Zealand is investing $4 billion to build these homes and make sure that the existing State houses are warm and dry."