To: Upper Harbour MP Cameron Brewer; Te Atatū MP Phil Twyford; Kelston MP Carmel Sepuloni; New Lynn MP Paulo Garcia; and Minister for Housing Chris Bishop
Support state housing in West Auckland
We call on you to keep building the promised state homes in West Auckland that have been cancelled and do not allow the land to be sold off to private developers and investors.
Why is this important?
West Auckland should be a place where everyone has a decent, healthy, stable and suitable home, in a community where children can grow up in their local schools and where people can put down roots near the services they need to thrive.
But right now, people in our community are experiencing high rents, homelessness, overcrowding and substandard housing. This is having an impact on people's long-term wellbeing and the wellbeing of our communities.
Successive governments have not done enough to make sure everyone in our community has suitable housing. Now, the current Coalition Government has cancelled hundreds of Kāinga Ora homes, is selling off state housing and making it less available to people in our community.
In the West Auckland area we have:
- 1,161 households on the Housing Register in (June 2025)
- 7,524 people experiencing Severe Housing Deprivation (homelessness) at the time of Census 2023. This is likely to have grown since the Emergency Housing rules have put up barriers to access temporary shelter.
- And still, the Government has decided to cancel 12 Kāinga Ora developments that would have provided 425 decent and stable homes to people in our communities.
- Some of these cancelled developments are on land that once had state housing and families living there, forced out on the promise of more homes and a right to return back to their communities. Some of these cancelled developments are on land Kāinga Ora purchased to make way for much needed homes close to train stations, parks and local amenities.
State housing is a key solution to the housing crisis facing people living in West Auckland. It is the key way governments ensure people and whānau, no matter their income, age or stage in life, have a place to call home. By cancelling state housing, more people and families will be forced into unaffordable private rentals, unsuitable boarding houses and onto the streets.
We are calling on our local MPs to advocate for state housing in our community - to stop state housing land being sold off to investors and developers, and to ensure everyone in West Auckland has decent and stable housing.
Cancelled Kāinga Ora developments:
- Beauchamp Dr & Reverie Pl, Massey - 65 homes
- Totara Ave, New Lynn - 84 homes
- Elm St & Racecourse Parade, Avondale - 139 homes
- Vallance Pl, Massey - 13 homes
- Cedar Heights Ave, Massey - 8 homes
- Tabitha Cres, Henderson - 4 homes
- Sachel Pl, Rānui - 3 homes (sold)
- MacKenzie St, Te Atatū South - 3 homes
- Te Atatū Rd - 3 homes
- Valonia St, New Windsor - 3 homes
- Ulster St, Blockhouse Bay - 32 homes
- Marlowe Rd & Bolton St - 68 homes
How it will be delivered
This petition will be delivered as part of a national campaign in support of state housing across the country.
