White HelenHELEN WHITE (Labour): Thank you for letting me take a call on this bill. It's close to my heart because I'm based in Auckland Central and have watched the environment change. Really my reason for supporting the adoption of this bill and its progression is that I see the apartments that are being built in Auckland Central as really key to the solution for affordable housing which is not only in reach of people but it's also something which is going to be much more environmentally friendly. We need a city that's livable and we need the options that people have for affordable housing to be ones that are rock solid investments because this is the first money that people spend. They spend it because they need security of tenure and there's a whole lot of reasons for that. One is that rentals are very difficult and have been very insecure in New Zealand's culture and we need to make sure that it becomes much more secure.The Labour Government has done a lot towards that but another part of the puzzle these kinds of structures bodies corporate—what being involved in this did for me was make me see that there were a whole lot of pieces of the puzzle missing. It is a bit of a can of worms this stuff because there aren't just body corporate structures; there are other forms of community living popping up often as a consequence of a need for people to live in affordable situations but also because they desire to live communally and I think that's a really important part of things—I think this is a really good way to live if it's got right but it's been insecure and it's been pretty scary for people going in because they haven't had appropriate disclosure of situations they haven't known what they're buying and they've often bitten off more than they can chew.When I saw this I was very pleased and I don't think it's an accident that this started with Nikki Kaye who was based in Auckland Central. I know Grant Robertson was very supportive of it at the beginning of its inception for the same reasons. He's another person based in a large city.I'd like to thank the Minister for allowing the progression of this in so many ways—supporting it with her staff. I know your staff have got their fingers in many pies trying to reform the area so that there are lots of pieces of that puzzle put together and this took considerable resource. What we started with really was stone soup" because we started with our set of proposals and it was explored and we've ended up with a very different bill with the cooperation of everybody. It's really because there's an evolving culture because the first reports about this were coming out a decade ago so this is almost an apolitical move I think where we all needed to get on board and we recognised that and we did. But we ended up with a quite different bill. It involves the development of much more disclosures and it involves remote voting which is a major component of the reason that we haven't gone into the issue of proxies because that may actually solve the problem.I suspect what people will do is they will take their role more seriously when they buy an apartment and they will get involved in a way that perhaps they didn't in the past and they won't be giving their vote as frequently to somebody else in a proxy farming situation because we're all becoming much more savvy and it's possible under this regime because you can actually remotely vote. So hopefully that means the direct engagement in the situation by people. But you know we'll see; this is an evolving space. There's a lot of people coming in particularly to central Auckland from migrant cultures where there's been a long tradition of community living. So there'll be new ways of operating and hopefully that will feed into this but I certainly see this as a beginning of a real understanding of a broader issue of community living.The code of conduct is also a really important thing because we're starting to understand how we should behave in those spaces and the other really important piece of the puzzle is dispute resolution because as a lawyer that's one of my big concerns just the cost of things and how intimidating they are for people. So that has to be dealt with and it has been here. There's been a practical way of looking at that area.So I thank the member for supporting this Nicola Willis. I think it's really great that she took it on. I think it's great that we've managed to cooperatively deal with this piece of legislation which is so important to people needing an affordable income. Thank you."