2. Question No. 2—HousingCHLÖE SWARBRICK (Green—Auckland Central) to the Associate Minister of HousingQuestion No. 2—Housing2. CHLÖE SWARBRICK (Green—Auckland Central) to the Associate Minister of Housing: What real-world data if any is collected by the Government on healthy homes standards compliance?Hon BARBARA EDMONDS (Associate Minister of Housing): This Government believes every New Zealander should have a safe warm and dry home. The healthy homes standards were designed to improve and deliver on this and improve the quality of rental properties across the country. The latest Government-commissioned Kantar survey of November 2022 found that 92 percent of landlords had either fully met the standards or have done things to prepare their property to meet the healthy homes standards. As at 31 May 2023 97 percent of eligible Kāinga Ora homes either met the requirements within the healthy homes standards or had work in progress to meet them. We are also aware of what is happening on the ground through compliance checks by the Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment's (MBIE) tenancy compliance and investigations team. In the period 30 May 2022 to 29 May 2023 they undertook 921 healthy home standards compliance checks—296 of which were the result of a complaint and 625 were the result of a proactive investigation.Chlöe Swarbrick: Does she think that information from voluntary surveys is adequate to make evidence-based policy to respond to the real-world level of healthy homes standards compliance?Hon BARBARA EDMONDS: I think it is one aspect of ensuring that we have compliance with the healthy homes standards.Chlöe Swarbrick: How many landlords or property managers have self-registered exclusions from the healthy homes standards for their rentals?Hon BARBARA EDMONDS: I don't have that data on me. If the member would like to put that on notice then I'm willing to respond.Chlöe Swarbrick: Why does the burden of ensuring healthy homes standards compliance fall on renters living in those sub-standard rental properties?Hon BARBARA EDMONDS: As I said the Government believes that every New Zealander should have a safe warm and dry home. There is a responsibility on everybody to ensure that there is compliance with the healthy homes standards. Again I will go through compliance time frames between 1 July 2021 and 2025: all private rentals must comply with the healthy homes standards. If the member has a particular concern or tenants that have written to them we welcome that investigation. They can ring 0800 TENANCY to report that to MBIE.Chlöe Swarbrick: How can the Government understand whether the healthy homes standards are working when they have no real-world data on compliance and no data on the self-registered exclusion and the burden disproportionately falls on renters to report these issues and doesn't all of this just make the case for a rental warrant of fitness?Hon BARBARA EDMONDS: As we've said the Government again believes that everybody should have a safe warm and dry home. We are doing compliance checks on the ground. Private landlords have to comply with the healthy homes standards by 1 July 2025. There is always more work to do in this space and we believe that the best way to improve that is through doing compliance checks and having standards which were not in place before 2019.