Salesa JennyJENNY SALESA (Labour—Manukau East): After 9 long years under this National Government has it delivered a better brighter future for all New Zealanders as it promised? Not for so many of the people in Manukau East and not for many of the people in South Auckland. The 2017 Budget is trying very hard to patch up the huge deficits in housing in education and in health. My comments will focus on these three areas but I will start with housing. After 9 years of failure in housing does Budget 2017 deliver solutions? Will this Budget fix the housing crisis? Does it provide long-term solutions for homelessness? The answer is no not at all but how I wish—how I wish—that it actually addressed housing for so many of our people in a comprehensive way.National's answer to the housing crisis in this particular Budget as far as I can see is it will fund land that will build 1200 homes. But when Auckland is short by over 40000 houses right now when the rest of the country is short by over 25000 houses providing funding for land for 1200 homes will not fix the issue. This Budget of 2017 also provides the accommodation supplement. But my question is what the people who are needing help now are going to do between now and April of next year when this accommodation supplement actually kicks in. Last winter we went through what I would call a winter of misery. So many people were living in garages. Working families were living in cars.There is a huge increase in people who are now living in boarding houses. Just 2 days ago the Sunday Star-Times covered boarding houses in west Auckland and unfortunately a boarding house that my office has been working with over the last few weeks in Ōtāhuhu in my electorate of Manukau East. Imagine this: walking up to this particular boarding house. From the outside it looks like a house that is fine. The fence is pretty tall so it is not actually until you are close to the house that you see that over 90 percent of the windows have no glass. When you walk up to this house what hits you first is the smell that comes out from this house. What you know from walking into the house is you see black mould. You see a kitchen that does not have a stove that works. You see the people who live in this particular house that is not fit for people to live in. This is the kind of boarding house that accommodation supplements are paying for but my question is what is the current Government doing to ensure that the houses that our accommodation supplement pays for are fit and proper and healthy—warm dry and healthy—for everyone to live in?What we know is that in 2009 we had over 69000 State houses. We also know that in 2016 we had only 61600 State houses and you add on an extra 2700 leased houses so within 8 years this Government has sold off 7400 houses. On which planet is it that when we have a housing crisis where we do not have enough houses the solution is to sell off the State houses?We are a country that usually prides itself on serving our families who are the most vulnerable people but right now—shame on this Government—we are not serving our most vulnerable people. We are not ensuring that they are even housed especially our working families who work full-time but who cannot afford to pay the rent. They live in cars they live in garages and Budget 2017 does not provide a solution for that. Only a change in Government will provide the solution. Thank you.