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Having a stable home is the foundation for a good life – it supports us to build connections with our neighbours, our local schools and sports clubs. It creates the conditions for us to be able to connect and contribute to our communities.

But successive governments have not done enough to make sure everyone has decent and suitable housing. They have prioritised legislation and policy that support property investor profits, forcing many people in our communities into unaffordable and insecure private rentals, and others into garages, cars and parks.

Now, the National-led government plans to halt the building of new state houses, sell off state housing land, and make it less available to our communities. In some communities, there was never new state housing in the pipeline to begin with, despite people in every neighbourhood, town and city experiencing housing stress.

We know from our own history and from overseas, that when governments play a bigger role in building and providing suitable housing, we lay the foundation for thriving communities. We have built state housing at scale as a solution before, and we can do it again.

If we can show our local representatives that we support state housing in our communities, this will put pressure on the Government to keep building the state housing we need.

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Support state housing in Waitematā Auckland Central
Having a stable home is the foundation for a good life – it supports us to build connections with people and places. It creates the conditions for us to be able to connect and contribute to our communities. But successive governments have not done enough to make sure everyone in our community has suitable housing. Now, the National-led Government plans to sell off state housing, has cancelled developments already underway and will make it less available to our communities. This will lead to more people living in unaffordable and unsuitable private rentals, in their cars and on the streets. In the Waitematā Local Board (Auckland Central) area: • Auckland Council counted 809 “unsheltered homeless” living in the city in May 2025, a 90 percent increase since September 2024[1] • The number of households on the Housing Register for Waitematā is 195 (as of June 25)[2] • There are many more people living in housing stress, who are not on the Housing Register or visibly homeless. At the time of Census 2023 there were 2,517 people living in Severe Housing Deprivation in the Waitematā area[3] • A diverse range of people live and work here, not just the well off • Vincent Street is a Kāinga Ora development for 53 homes which has been cancelled. This development would have provided decent and stable housing, close to amenities We know from our own history and from overseas, that when governments play a bigger role in building and providing decent and suitable housing, we lay the foundation for thriving communities. We have built state housing at scale as a solution before, and we can do it again. We are calling on decision makers to ensure that everyone in Auckland Central has a decent and stable home. Restarting the planning and construction of cancelled developments like Vincent Street as soon as possible is what we need to be doing to ensure this happens. References: 1. Auckland’s homelessness has almost doubled, says council report. The Post, 28 July 2025 2. MSD Housing Register. MSD, June 2025 3. Severe Housing Deprivation. Aotearoa Data Explorer. StatsNZ

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