7. State and Social Housing Auckland—Crown Building ProjectANDREW BAYLY (National—Hunua) to the Minister for Social HousingState and Social Housing Auckland—Crown Building Project7. ANDREW BAYLY (National—Hunua) to the Minister for Social Housing: How is the Government utilising its residential land holdings in Auckland to support its social housing needs?Hon AMY ADAMS (Minister for Social Housing): Last week I announced the Government's extensive Crown building project which will see the less than 5 percent of Auckland's available residential land that is owned by the Government redeveloped to remove 8300 run-down old social houses and replace them with 34000 new homes over the next 10 years. The project will see 13500 new warm dry fit-for-purpose social houses and 20600 market houses delivered across the city at least 20 percent and up to 50 percent of which will be affordable in terms of the KiwiSaver HomeStart cap. This project is the equivalent of building 3½ new houses on every single street in Auckland. The vast majority of these new homes will be delivered through Housing New Zealand's Auckland housing project.Andrew Bayly: What are the costs of the Auckland housing programme and how will this be funded?Hon AMY ADAMS: Our housing programme is fully costed and we know that the first phase of the Auckland housing programme will cost $2.23 billion over 4 years before becoming self-funding through the sale of affordable and market houses. Of course we already have the land for our programmes. Housing New Zealand will retain dividends and proceeds from State house transfers to help fund the programme as well as taking on a $1.1 billion private debt facility. The project has been 2 years in development to ensure that our plans are realistic in terms of both the efficient maximisation—[Interruption]Mr SPEAKER: Order! The level of interjection from some relatively senior members in the Labour Party is unacceptable. The Minister has been asked a question; the House deserves to be able to hear the answer.Hon AMY ADAMS: The project has been 2 years in development to ensure our plans are realistic in terms of the efficient maximisation of the capacity of the land that the Government owns construction sector capacity good urban design and the real cost of building.Andrew Bayly: What will the impact be of the Crown building project for social housing tenants?Hon AMY ADAMS: Our first priority will be ensuring that we have suitable housing for our existing tenants whose properties are being redeveloped to move into. Our whole housing stock across Auckland is old and tired. The average age of the Housing New Zealand Auckland portfolio is 40 years old and these redevelopments will provide warm dry modern housing for 13500 families who are in need of social housing.Phil Twyford: Does the list of landholdings that the Government is boasting will solve the housing crisis which it created include any substations roundabouts or cemeteries as it did two Budgets ago when that Minister promised 500 hectares of Crown land and 10000 houses none of which have been built in the last 2 years? [Interruption] Mr SPEAKER: Order! [Interruption] Order! I now want the answer.Phil Twyford: Let Nick answer. Go on.Hon AMY ADAMS: Ask Nick then. The benefit of the Government's programme is that we have done the work to identify the land to ensure we have costed the land to ensure we know the cost of building the houses and to make sure that the programme is effective across the construction sector. And unlike the Labour Party we know where the houses are going. We know the cost of building the houses. We have not dreamt up a number. We know the sites they are on we own the sites they are on and this is a Government that has the ability to deliver them. [Interruption] Mr SPEAKER: Order! [Interruption] Order! That is to all members including the Rt Hon Winston Peters.