Logie JanJAN LOGIE (Green): Tēnā koe Madam Speaker. In my contribution this afternoon I'd like to talk to one of the points in the Speech from the Throne. The Prime Minister acknowledged three of the countries longest standing and hardest issues demanding continued and determined action: affordable housing child poverty and the climate crisis—and of course all those three issues are interlinked in fact. But in my contribution today I want to focus on a specific angle of housing and that is accessible housing. The Green Party—and I hope every single person in this House—has a commitment and a vision for every person in this country to have warm dry safe affordable and accessible housing.One in four New Zealanders in this country have a disability or an access need. At any time any one of us could have significant mobility or access needs that we do not expect—and the chances are that if we don't have them already as we age we will. We need universal design in our housing to help ensure that all of us at all times have a roof over our heads. Yet at the moment we know on the public housing register waiting list there's almost 4500 people who are waiting for a home who are receiving the supported living payment. To get that payment you need to be blind or have a disability or illness that means you can't work more than 15 hours a week and for that to be the case for over two years—these are very significant levels of disability—or you're caring for somebody who's not a partner and who would otherwise be in residential care. I want people just to think about that reality for the moment and the poverty that that community experiences because of the low levels of income support and the lack of opportunities that are provided for them to be able to address that and then think about the debate we've been having around housing affordability and how much tougher it is for those people to have any opportunity to access housing.And then if you think about the housing market and the private rental market we kind of tend to think of people in long queues to try and get a rental property and we're imagining—I imagine if you're like me—a house of whatever standard and we know that we can't make assumptions around that but that it be a house that you can get into through the door to be able to have that conversation with the real estate agent. Well when the Greens did a check on TradeMe at the end of last year to see how many houses were listed as accessible we found that there were 10291 houses listed on TradeMe and of those 27—I really want that to sink in: 27—indicated that they were accessible; for the entire country our private rental market. When we think of our largest city of Auckland there were four houses—in all of Auckland—on the private market that listed the fact that they were accessible. No wonder we have over 4500 people who have managed to get on to a public housing list and no wonder we're hearing from people in the community who have been in motels. One man who I know in Dunedin was in a motel for 11 months waiting to find somewhere that he might be able to live and thanks to him being in the media and talking about that reality he managed to get some action. But we know there are so many more New Zealanders who haven't. There are people in my community who are saying a 15 percent target for accessibility is not enough; 18000—15 percent of that is 2700; it doesn't even clear the waiting list. What they said to me as well is that they want a house to live in—that's first—they also want to be able to visit friends or family and have their community available to them. The Government has to do better.