🏠 Housing Policy

"He kāinga pai hei oranga mō te whānau – A good home supports family wellbeing."

🔍 Background

Aotearoa faces a deepening housing crisis. Decades of privatisation, market speculation, and underinvestment in public housing have left thousands of whānau without safe, secure, or affordable homes. Home ownership has plummeted, while rent prices continue to rise disproportionately to income. Māori, Pasifika, and low-income communities are disproportionately affected, with many experiencing intergenerational housing exclusion.

🌈 Vision

We believe that housing is a human right — not a privilege or commodity. Everyone in Aotearoa deserves a warm, dry, affordable home within thriving, connected communities grounded in whenua and care.

🎯 Objectives

• Make high-quality, affordable housing universally accessible.
• End homelessness and housing precarity through prevention and long-term solutions.
• Return decision-making power over housing to iwi, hapū, and communities.
• Ensure housing development supports climate resilience and ecological restoration.

📜 Policy Commitments

• Build 200,000 state-owned papakāinga (community-based) homes across Aotearoa.
• Cap rents at 25% of household income to ensure affordability.
• Ban land banking and penalise empty investment properties.
• Return confiscated whenua to iwi and hapū as part of housing reparation.
• Support community-led, regenerative housing rooted in whenua and collective wellbeing.

🛠 Implementation Plan

• Create a Ministry for Housing Justice to lead papakāinga construction and support kaupapa Māori housing models.
• Pass the Rent Control and Housing Equity Act to implement rent caps and anti-speculation rules.
• Redirect housing subsidies from landlords to community developers and public construction.
• Establish a national reparative housing fund and whenua return protocols for iwi and hapū.
• Mandate climate-resilient, regenerative building standards for all new public housing.

📆 Timeframe

Year 1–2:

• Establish Housing Justice Ministry
• Begin construction of 20,000 papakāinga homes
• Pass rent control legislation

Year 3–5:

• Build an additional 60,000 public homes
• Return 50,000 hectares of whenua to iwi and hapū
• Begin rent cap enforcement across all housing providers

Year 6–10:

• Complete 200,000 public homes
• Ensure universal access to affordable, secure, regenerative housing for all