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To: MP for Mt Albert, MP for Auckland Central, and Minister for Housing
Support state housing in Waitematā Auckland Central
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We call on you to:
- Advocate for state housing in our communities so that everyone has a decent, stable and suitable place to call home
- Resume the building of Vincent Street Kāinga Ora
- Stop the sell-off of Kāinga Ora land, and commit to the building and retrofitting of state housing
Why is this important?
The cost of housing affects us all. In Tāmaki Makaurau, we spend significantly more than the recommended 30% of income. Along with high rents and the decline of home ownership, many in Tāmaki Makaurau are facing housing insecurity. Housing and its cost-of-living impact many who are often only a paycheck away from homelessness. Significantly increasing state housing will help democratise the housing system by providing affordable, secure homes for our whanau and fellow citizens.
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 has counted a significant increase in “unsheltered homeless” living in the city[1]
- The number of households on the Housing Register for Waitematā is 204 (as of June 2026)[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:
References:
- Analysis: Why it's wrong for politicians to dodge questions about homelessness. RNZ, 5 July 2026
- MSD Housing Register. MSD, June 2026
- Severe Housing Deprivation. Aotearoa Data Explorer. StatsNZ
How it will be delivered
This petition will be delivered as part of the national state housing campaign.