5. Housing—Homeownership and AffordabilityMETIRIA TUREI (Co-Leader—Green) to the Prime MinisterHousing—Homeownership and Affordability5. METIRIA TUREI (Co-Leader—Green) to the Prime Minister: Ka tū a ia i runga i te mana o āna kaupapa here Kāwanatanga katoa nē?[Does he stand by all his Government's policies?]Rt Hon JOHN KEY (Prime Minister): Yes.Metiria Turei: Does the Prime Minister stand by his housing policies now that 85 percent of Aucklanders think there is a housing crisis and more than half of Auckland homeowners think house prices need to come down?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: Yes.Metiria Turei: Does he stand by his housing policies which have seen households that have to spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing go from just one in 10 a generation ago to almost one in three today?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: Yes.Metiria Turei: How long does he think his policies can be effective when this Government has seen wage rises at something like 1 percent 1.5 percent a year while the median Auckland house price is going up at over 12 percent a year? How long can that continue?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: The member constantly demonstrates that she does not really understand what is happening. If she did she would see that wages have gone up 25 percent in New Zealand and as I noted earlier to the House interest rates have halved under this Government. For someone borrowing $300000 for their mortgage they are paying $16000 a year less than they were. Probably in pre-tax terms it is in the order of about $22000 per year.Metiria Turei: Surely the Prime Minister is not trying to take credit for low interest rates when they are happening all over the world because of weak real economic growth both here and overseas?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: One of the reasons why interest rates are coming down in this country is that the Government has done a good job of getting the books back in order and of managing inflation expectations. It was not so long ago that her co-leader wanted to get the printing presses out in New Zealand and start printing money. That would have had interesting economic implications as would her desire to see the poorest New Zealanders see all of their equity evaporate in housing when she takes all of that off them. I will be reminding New Zealanders of that in the months to come.Metiria Turei: How many poor people on 60 percent or less of the median household income are buying million-dollar homes in Auckland?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: I suspect very few and they probably have not for the last 30 or 40 years. The reality though is that for very low-income New Zealanders there is assistance from the Government. KiwiSaver HomeStart for instance has both income caps and other caps and we are seeing around the country quite a lot of New Zealanders—in fact very low-income New Zealanders—accessing that. The Government is also providing additional support for them with income-related rents into social housing—something we have never seen before. This Government as we know was the first Government in decades to raise benefits in this country. We have spent over $10 billion actually providing support to very low-income and low-income New Zealanders in a vast variety of ways. The member gets up as if the Government is not out there supporting the most at-risk New Zealanders; in fact we are every single day.Metiria Turei: Will the Prime Minister accompany me to the Park Up for Homes in Parnell tomorrow night to talk directly to homeless people about his plans to ensure that they are homed in the future; if not why not?Rt Hon JOHN KEY: The member should not take it personally but I do not want to accompany her anywhere. If she wants to know why it is because I really do not want to hang with her. [Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order!Metiria Turei: I seek leave to table the UMR Research housing poll results as yet unpublished provided to me on 22 August 2016.Mr SPEAKER: On the basis that I am assured it is unpublished and not therefore available to members I will put the leave. Leave is sought to table that particular UMR Research poll. Is there any objection to it being tabled? There is none. It can be tabled.Document by leave laid on the Table of the House.