Support state housing now

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 Coalition Government have stopped building nearly 3500 new state houses, are selling off state housing land, and making 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 by starting local campaigns, this will put pressure on the Government to keep building the state housing we need.

Start a local campaign for state housing, or check out a local campaign in your community to get involved with below. You don't need to have any experience to start a campaign! And you will have support to start slow. You might wish to start a digital petition or do more grassroots campaigning. We can work this out together, and you will have support all the way.

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  • Whangārei
    Support state housing in Whangārei
    Everyone in our community deserves to be housed. People should have agency over their housing, and it should be accessible and designed based on how people want to live. This would strengthen our communities, make life easier for whānau and provide the stability needed for a thriving city. But successive governments have not done enough to make sure everyone in our community has a suitable housing. Now, the National-led Government plan to sell off state housing and 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. It also means that land will be privatised that should otherwise be returned to hapū and iwi for Māori housing solutions. In Whangārei we have:  - 540 households on the Housing Register in Whangārei  - 1,971 people experiencing Severe Housing Deprivation (homelessness) Census 2023 (this has likely grown since data was collected) - And still, this National government has decided to cancel 26 developments, 322 homes that were in the pipeline, that would've housed whānau in need 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 MP for Whangārei, Shane Reti to advocate for the people of our city to ensure that everyone in Whangārei has a decent and stable home and stop the sell off. Cancelled developments: • Rupert Clark Rd, Whau Valley (5 homes);  • Wilkinson Ave, Kamo (5 homes) Paramount Pde, Tikipunga (10 homes);  • Paramount Pde & Hawea Pl, Tikipunga (20 homes);  • Tamingi St & Tiki Pl, Ruakaka (29 homes);  • Clark Rd & Griffin St, Kamo (12 homes)  • Chester and Ross (9 homes, 17 homes & 18 homes in three separate projects)  • Vinegar Hill Rd (13 homes);  • Vinegar Hill Rd & Balmoral Rd (9 homes);  • Weaver & Moody Ave (12 homes)  • Kamo Rd & McKintock St (15 homes) • Third Ave and Second Ave (33 homes);  • Vinegar Hill Rd, Thomas St, Steere Pl (30 homes);  • Aratiatia Pl (9 homes);  • Heretaunga St (6 homes);  • Meadow Park Cres (3 homes & 3 homes in two separate projects);  • Jack St (5 homes);  • William Jones Drive (12 homes);  • Thomas St (15 homes);  • Thomas St, Tikipunga (9 homes);  • Tiki Pl & Peter Snell Rd, Ruakaka (18 homes)
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  • Auckland
    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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