Davidson MaramaGENERAL DEBATEMARAMA DAVIDSON (Co-Leader—Green): I move That the House take note of miscellaneous business.Kia orana. Thank you very much Mr Speaker. Today I want to say very clearly that everyone needs a home and that we need to move away from housing as a commodity towards a home and thriving communities—Hon Member: What about that land by the airport?MARAMA DAVIDSON: —as a fundamental human right instead of a privilege. We need to forge a whole new approach to delivering housing—in particular understanding that housing was always supposed to be a core public good a core responsibility of provision from the Crown just like healthcare education and transport.It has always been naive and irresponsible in fact to expect that a market-driven approach will prioritise anything other than profit when we need houses and communities to address social and environmental concerns for people and our planet; for the needs of people especially moving into a world and a society that has to address climate change and inequality.The communities that we design today need to respond and need to address a zero-carbon world. We need to be aiming for the highest standard of energy efficiency—like passive housing where we can minimise the need for artificial heating through things like triple-glazed windows through things like smart ventilation systems and through things like maximum airtight build. This would benefit our people. This would benefit our community design. This would benefit our planet. We will need Government support to get a New Zealand - based a locally based industry to the point where we are able to have these energy-efficient builds as a standard approach to the way that we have to live in our country and indeed the world.The worst way that we can design communities is to undermine the justice and dispute issues at the heart of any particular land that proposes to be developed upon—I refer directly to Ihumātao given the shouts coming from that side of the House. That is the worst way to design communities. So the communities that we do design need to be with people. They need to be connected to where we live work and play. They need to be with our schools our efficient and affordable public transport systems where we work and where we play—our green places—and co-housing as a way of being able to address better use of land and also better use and understanding of how communities operate.I cannot put up a housing vision without addressing public housing. I celebrate with this Government that we have built the most public houses that this country has actually seen for at least two decades. I want an Aotearoa where public houses also are built to a minimum energy-efficiency design and co-house-type and papakāinga-type choices and arrangements as another standard way for us to use the land and building better.I spoke at our AGM in Dunedin in the weekend about one of our flagship policies of a rent-to-own Government-backed initiative as part of a massive lever to address the housing crisis issues that we are facing today where we target low to middle income families—families who are nowhere near being able to save a deposit but are paying a rent—that we have a Government build scheme that allows that rent in the first say five years to go towards building equity in owning their own home. This will allow more families to put down roots in their communities to not have to worry about shifting their children's schools looking for other jobs or leaving their neighbourhoods and friends.A strong public housing programme a rent-to-own policy secure renters' rights and addressing homelessness—these are parts of the new ways of forging a better approach to ending the housing crisis. Thank you.