Omer IbrahimIBRAHIM OMER (Labour): Thank you Mr Speaker. Housing is a human right. This Government believes every person deserves to live in a warm dry and affordable home. It is why we have undertaken the biggest systematic change in the last 40 years or more: building houses. It is why we overhauled the planning rules to encourage more density in our urban areas where people want to live and work.When I first arrived in this country I was given a Kāinga Ora house in Lower Hutt in Pōmare where people like me who come from poor backgrounds lived in peace and love. And guess what happened to those houses? Two three years later those houses were bulldozed by the National Government in 2011. They had sold them to the private developers and now there are flash houses being built in those places—Chris Bishop: Yes. Some of them are State houses.IBRAHIM OMER: —which is fine. But what happened to those families? What happened to those poor people Mr Bishop? What happened to them? No one knows. They have been kicked out. God knows where they are.That's why we are investing billions in infrastructure like pipes and roads to enable new housing. It is why we equip local authorities with the ability to undertake long-term borrowing to ensure that they can develop the infrastructure they need to sustain and grow their communities and why we work with them to have coherent spatial planning. It is why we are investing in a land development to get a mix of public affordability in the market housing because this is very important.Yesterday for me as someone who calls Wellington home was a proud moment. We opened the new housing project in Rolleston Street. About 20 new houses: flash new dry and affordable houses which is going to house about 20 families—and 60 more are being built.I'd like to thank the Hon Dr Megan Woods for all the work that she is doing. You go to Auckland and every street you go to there is a new house and a new building coming.This Government is for all New Zealanders. We know that having a house having a shelter over the head makes a difference in people's lives. To me what made a difference in my life was getting that Kāinga Ora house. It gave me a head start in life. That's why today I could be here I could speak in this House sharing my experience because I got a head start in life. I could go to uni because I had shelter. I could work because I had shelter. In the last nine 10 years a lot of people couldn't afford that. That's why this Government is investing billions of dollars building more houses.Rolleston Street housing project is just the beginning for Wellington Central. There is more under way. Just around the corner from Rolleston Street there are another 300 dry and affordable houses coming up and this is going to house around 900 families. This is huge for Wellington and this is what the Labour Government does. In Wellington when the National Party left the House in 2017 we were left with 89 fewer public houses. In the past five years we have delivered about 400 much more needed public houses for people and whānau and families in Wellington City and we will continue to provide more houses in the coming years with over 1000 in the pipeline across the region.Across the country we delivered about 13300 public homes since October 2017 11285 of all those are new builds—in contrast to the National Government which left us with 1500 fewer public houses. To put our public housing building programme in perspective one-in-seven houses has been added by this Government in the last five years.I am proud to be part of the Government that is delivering the biggest-ever housing programme since the 1950s. This housing is just one of the things that we're doing. You can see what this Government is doing for the working people through increasing the minimum wage. Mr Speaker thank you so much.