1. Housing Supply—Adequacy and KiwiBuildPRIYANCA RADHAKRISHNAN (Labour) to the Minister of Housing and Urban DevelopmentORAL QUESTIONSQUESTIONS TO MINISTERSHousing Supply—Adequacy and KiwiBuild1. PRIYANCA RADHAKRISHNAN (Labour) to the Minister of Housing and Urban Development: What does the briefing he received as incoming Minister say about the impact KiwiBuild will have?Hon PHIL TWYFORD (Minister of Housing and Urban Development): It states that the KiwiBuild programme creates a unique opportunity to support transformative change in the construction sector. It says that the sector suffers from capacity constraints and low productivity but through KiwiBuild large-scale contracts could support a market for manufactured housing which could reduce time to build each dwelling by 60 percent and total construction costs per dwelling by 15 percent.Priyanca Radhakrishnan: What does the briefing to the incoming Minister (BIM) say about the situation the Government has inherited?Hon PHIL TWYFORD: Well the briefing says that high house prices and I quote generate a significant drag on productivity: … increase government costs: …" and "have stark distributional impacts: …". In short the previous Government's housing crisis made the country poorer made middle- and low-income New Zealanders poorer and cost taxpayers a lot of money.Priyanca Radhakrishnan: Does the BIM address the claim that New Zealand has been in a record housing boom?Hon PHIL TWYFORD: Well actually yes it does. The BIM notes that house construction compared to the size of the population is well below levels achieved in the early 2000s let alone in the 1970s. It says that suboptimal performance of the New Zealand housing market is well recognised. It continues to face pressure particularly in Auckland where not enough houses have been built to meet the demand from strong population growth.Priyanca Radhakrishnan: What conclusions does the BIM reach in support of the objectives of KiwiBuild?Hon PHIL TWYFORD: Well the briefing says that the most important factor for improving long-term housing and urban outcomes is to ensure the responsiveness of housing supply. Supply needs to be responsive to population growth and provide enough choices of location price size typology and tenure and that is exactly what this Government intends to deliver.Hon Michael Woodhouse: Is the KiwiBuild programme's goal to deliver more houses more affordable houses or both?Hon PHIL TWYFORD: Both.Hon Michael Woodhouse: In response to that answer what is the Minister's best estimate of the net increase in the number of dwellings that will be constructed under the KiwiBuild excluding those KiwiBuild dwellings planned to be purchased from developments already in the pipeline?Hon PHIL TWYFORD: The coalition Government will deliver 100000 affordable homes over 10 years over and above what the private market or the former Government were going to deliver.Hon Michael Woodhouse: I raise a point of order Mr Speaker. In my first supplementary I asked whether affordable or total house supply was the goal. The answer was both. Given that I then asked how many net of those purchased properties would be constructed. I didn't get an answer to that question.Mr SPEAKER: I think the member did. The question was addressed."