Twyford PhilHon PHIL TWYFORD (Minister of Housing and Urban Development): I want to talk about a year in Government in which we have built the foundations of fixing the housing crisis that the National Party created and denied at the same time. I am proud to be in a Government that has built the very first KiwiBuild homes and the first-home buyers moved into those homes on the weekend. I'm proud that after a decade of declining rates of homeownership under the former National Government 44000 New Zealanders have hope again and have registered on the KiwiBuild website so that they can have a crack at homeownership. I'm proud that we're now building—SPEAKER: Order! I'm just going to ask staff to have a look at the member's mike but in the interim I'll just ask him to swap places with the Hon Chris Hipkins just in case there was a mike failure. I've got to admit not noticing that the member's mike was off but some members up the back are having trouble hearing him.Hon PHIL TWYFORD: OK. I might have broken the mike Mr Speaker so—SPEAKER: And no you can't start again.Hon PHIL TWYFORD: I'm proud of the fact that this Government is now building over 9000 KiwiBuild homes on Government-owned land. I'm proud of the fact that we've rescued and sped up dozens of developments that weren't happening under the old policy settings and now they are. I'm proud of the fact that there are 1200 extra families who have a public housing tenancy in a year in Government—451 more families in the last quarter alone—and we're building 6400 extra State and community houses over the next four years. Compare that to nine years of denial and no action of falling homeownership rates and a Government under whom sleeping in your car became a mainstream way of life. Nine years in which the housing crisis was created and denied.While we've been building houses the foundations of Simon Bridges' leadership have been crumbling. He hasn't been able to rein in Judith Collins. First with Judith Collins it was that France was changing their laws on paedophilia. She called on the Prime Minister to denounce something that hadn't even happened and when she was called out about this she doubled down. And we saw the same thing yesterday where Judith Collins incited right-wing trolls on Twitter to harass and victimise a young Kiwi couple who had done nothing more than buy their first home—absolutely outrageous. You know what I've noticed—you know what I've noticed? Judith Collins sets the policy line for the National Party on Twitter before Simon Bridges has even had advice from David Farrar's focus groups. He can't criticise her; he won't criticise her because he's terrified that she wants his job. That's the truth.I want to talk about a year in which the coalition Government brought compassion back to housing in New Zealand. We've set out on the road to fix the national housing crisis. Now KiwiBuild is ramping up. I want to be very clear about what KiwiBuild is and what it's not. It's a homeownership scheme. It's about promoting homeownership and giving an opportunity to middle New Zealand who were squeezed intolerably under the policies of the last National Government. Housing became incredibly unaffordable in our country's biggest city—Hon Maggie Barry: Oh this is boring.Hon PHIL TWYFORD: Maggie Barry finds this boring. She finds it boring that middle-class families in New Zealand cannot afford a chance at homeownership. Yeah that's very boring Maggie! It's very boring—SPEAKER: Order! Order!Hon PHIL TWYFORD: —for people like you but for middle New Zealand and young people all over this country they just are desperately wanting a Government who will give them a chance. Under National's policies families who earned between $80000 and $180000 suffered the biggest drop in homeownership over 10 years. That is middle New Zealand. Those are the people that members on that side of the House want to victimise. They don't think they deserve a break.