Faafoi KrisKRIS FAAFOI (Labour—Mana): We have just had 5 minutes of rhetoric from the Minister in the chair Anne Tolley so here are 5 minutes of the reality. The Minister said that this Government is about looking after vulnerable families but I want to give just one example of how this Government's policies and systems let one family down. I want to talk—and I will not mention names—about one sole parent who was looking after her adult child and a 3-year-old grandson and relying on one income. Since the Government changed its policy where Work and Income assesses income-related rents and Housing New Zealand becomes the landlord there has been mass confusion between those two departments and sometimes a lack of communication.This single parent with a disabled child was paying $127 a week. She had her personal circumstances change; her marriage broke up so she had her income-related rent reassessed and it went to $329. She could not afford $329 so the arrears for her rent piled up to close to $4000 to the point where her family was at the Tenancy Tribunal 1 day away from being evicted out of their Housing New Zealand home. Let me reiterate what we are talking about here: a single mother with an adult disabled child and a 3-year-old grandson whom she is looking after by herself. She cannot afford the $329 because that is $200 more than what she was paying before. She comes to my office and says: Kris something can't be right. Can you please have a look at this?". She is 1 day away from being evicted from her house.So we move a few cogs and things get moving and lo and behold those two agencies are wrong. Because her rent should have been—wait for it—not $329 but $53. So they were about $280 shy of the mark and this rent that she could not afford piled up and got her 1 day away from eviction and this is how this Government looks after vulnerable families in our community. It was 1 day away from evicting a mum with a disabled child and a 3-year-old grandson. She is looking after them by herself and the Minister says: "We are looking after vulnerable families." Well that is the reality of what this Government's policies and this Government's attitudes towards looking after vulnerable families and providing good affordable housing is doing to people in our communities.So stand up and take another 5 minutes and explain to this Committee and to this country how you are looking after vulnerable families if your policies and your departments are about to kick out a grandmother with a 3-year-old grandchild whom she is looking after and an adult disabled child. I say to those members on that side of the Chamber: stand up and defend that. That is exactly what happened and if it were not for a Labour member of Parliament working for his constituents that lady would be out on the street looking for somewhere to live. If you want to be proud of your track record of looking after vulnerable families then get up and defend that. I doubt any of you will—not one of you. That is the reality of your policies around social housing and the way you changed the game for my constituents 2 years ago.The other thing is that you have sat on your bums and done nothing about this piece of land in Porirua for the last 7 years. This is a photo of Castor Crescent. It used to have about 45 homes in it. You demolished it.Hon Ruth Dyson: Let me see it.KRIS FAAFOI: It looks like a park; it is not.Hon Ruth Dyson: It's bare land.KRIS FAAFOI: It is bare land. You demolished the houses 7 years ago and promised you would rebuild—and the Government promised it would rebuild sorry Mr Chair. You have not lifted one hammer hammered in one nail or dug one hole to put those houses back. And you say that there is no massive demand for social housing in New Zealand. Well tell that to the Citizens Advice Bureau which when I went and visited it the other day said "Emergency housing is the biggest issue here in Porirua." Tell that to the camp owners who are saying "We can't take any emergency housing cases any more. It's starting to affect our business."If you did care about people who need homes you would do something. Something needs to change when there are 41000 New Zealanders who are homeless. Something needs to change when you are not replacing homes in my electorate. Something needs to change when a single mother with a disabled child and a 3-year-old grandson gets her income-related rent calculated at the wrong amount and nearly gets kicked out of her house. Something needs to change. Something needs to change and that is the Government. If people really care about housing they will do a great thing on 23 September and kick this lot out."