Davidson Marama; Mallard TrevorHon MARAMA DAVIDSON (Minister for the Prevention of Family and Sexual Violence): Thank you Mr Speaker. Housing is a human right and that's where the Green Party has been very clear where we pitch our vision our solutions and our policies. I stand today as the co-leader for the Green Party to support the recent calls this week from the human rights commissioner but a call that has been long-time—around the world in fact—to ensure that we really are treating housing as a place for people to put down roots to have a sense of stability and security; a place that looks after people that is healthy that is warm; a place that is affordable; a place that is accessible which we have a particular issue and challenge with at the moment; a place that is located where people can access places to play live work and be educated get their social needs; a place that accepts the diversity of the ways of living across different communities that can respond culturally to the different needs.If we had been approaching our housing solutions with housing as a human right over the many decades and successive Governments we would not be facing the amount of harm and impact from unaffordability and a housing crisis that we are seeing today—an impact that has been the result of successive Governments giving far too much power to housing as a tradable commodity over and above housing as a place for people to live in housing as a home over and above just a way for making a few people a lot of wealth and a lot of money. That is how we have allowed this country to treat housing for far too long and so the Greens were absolutely supportive when we heard a recent call from the human rights commissioner. This is not just a housing crisis; this is a human rights crisis and the Greens have been very clear that we need to put up solutions that can deliver those human rights aspects of housing of an adequate standard of living to the many and not just to the few.It is important that we understand that housing as a human right upholds Te Tiriti and indigenous rights as part of the overall human rights landscape and that a key solution to our housing where Māori who are absolutely one of the disproportionately represented groups in housing challenge are able and enabled to lead housing solutions and able to lead with housing provision and supply in the way that Māori can organise and have power over community and whānau wellbeing. We also know that housing provision with community housing providers including Pacific housing providers is essential to uplifting a human rights approach to housing.We don't often enough as politicians focus on the 1.4 million I think who are also renting. Human rights are indivisible from who we might be what our background might be as people what our living situation might be today. Human rights apply to all of us whether we are renting whether we own a home—whatever living situation we are in whatever community we belong to whatever income we have to support ourselves. These notions of adequate standards of living are indivisible from our human rights from what we have a responsibility collectively to provide all of our people in this country no matter who we are. So the solutions that the Greens have always wanted to offer to meet the actual size of the challenge that we are facing are even more important today than in the couple of decades or so that we have been very clear about what is needed: essentially interrupting stopping urgently the speculative ramping up of houses being used as tradable commodities that is making it incredibly unaffordable for people to live in housing today in a way that gives people dignity. Having some rent controls right now sadly is needed because it's going to take far too long to bring our housing crisis and rental down to a level that is affordable to give people some sense of hope and security. So I am proud to continue to put up the Green housing solutions and a human rights approach to housing. Thank you.SPEAKER: Now we have two people taking the call—two people attempting to take the call. The Māori Party which has been allocated the call has chosen not to take one today. I'm going to suggest that I take the leave of the House to have two calls each of 2½ minutes. Is there any objection to that process? There appears to be none.