Trask LauraLAURA TRASK (ACT): Thank you. I'm quite privileged and happy to take a call on the previous Social Services and Community Committee's work that they did in putting together the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development's long-term insights briefing.So speaking to the report there are a couple of key points that I want to talk about. The demographics and the ageing population like the previous speaker Tamatha Paul actually alluded to is a really important thing. When houses are really expensive we do see in fact the birth rate going down which is quite evident at the moment. If we look back and we think about the boomers who are our ageing population we think about why there was a baby boom in the first place. What were the conditions back then that allowed people to feel like they were safe and secure and to have a family and how was it easier to build homes? I mean I have to think about regulation in that space but because we're talking about this report I will keep it nice and on point.Supporting more opportunities for alternative tenure options such as cooperatives co-housing arrangements or papa kāinga was one of the points that they made in this report—increasing the diversity functionality and accessibility of housing stock. They emphasise that there cannot be a one-size-fits-all approach to housing and urban development and instead each community needs different things.So let's just think about that for a moment. What are we hearing and what are we seeing? We're seeing that each individual community's needs are different and that our housing needs to reflect this. We need more of those partnerships with CHPs as they call them or the community housing partners. Some of this work is actually beginning and I think that this report really leads to how we need a lot more of this happening.One thing I thought that I might actually talk about briefly because it's a really good example of what they talk about within this report is actually Autism New Zealand. So Autism New Zealand they have indicated that 2 percent of people in New Zealand suffer from autism which is around 93000 individuals. They are partnered with Equity House to bring together some of their own community housing that is solution-focused for people with autism. This is a great example of what we can see when you bind a community together to solve the issues that they have.The likes of Community Housing Aotearoa and Emerge Aotearoa are actually amazing. I think that this report really does indicate that we need more of this—that central government Kāinga Ora doesn't always know what the community's needs are so I think that this report really highlights that for us.Some other little bits that I'd like to point out: when they're talking about having our cities more accessible and making sure that we have that urban planning correct we have that urban development increasing and we need to obviously increase our housing stock we really need to think about that Resource Management Act reform because if we're looking for our future and our future development this is going to be the key to that. I feel like it's something that has held us back and you can tell that through some of the report here.So just in summary and talking through a couple of other things that we could mention within this report I feel that while this is a great starting point the writing's already been on the wall. How am I standing here and we have a boomer generation that is completely ageing and we're completely unaware of it? I mean we call them the boomers; that in itself should actually be an indicator. We need to make sure that we have affordable accommodation to be able to care for people and especially care for our elderly and it is something that I'm gravely concerned about. Thank you.