Podcasts about housing minister phil twyford

What does the future hold for KiwiBuild?Housing Minister Phil Twyford will no longer guarantee that KiwiBuild will be made up of 100,000 affordable homes, but won't say whether that target has been scrapped either.The Government's flagship housing policy is being "recalibrated" after an admission this year that it was unlikely to meet its first target of 1000 affordable homes built by July 1 2019. Just 80 have been built so far.When the scheme was put under review, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Twyford both were emphatic that the target of building 100,000 affordable homes over 10 years would remain.But is it still achievable? And if not, should the programme still be promoted?CEO of the Property Council Leonie Freeman joined the Weekend Collective to discuss the Government scheme. 

What does the future hold for KiwiBuild?Housing Minister Phil Twyford will no longer guarantee that KiwiBuild will be made up of 100,000 affordable homes, but won't say whether that target has been scrapped either.The Government's flagship housing policy is being "recalibrated" after an admission this year that it was unlikely to meet its first target of 1000 affordable homes built by July 1 2019. Just 80 have been built so far.When the scheme was put under review, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Twyford both were emphatic that the target of building 100,000 affordable homes over 10 years would remain.But is it still achievable? And if not, should the programme still be promoted?CEO of the Property Council Leonie Freeman joined the Weekend Collective to discuss the Government scheme. 

What does the future hold for KiwiBuild?Housing Minister Phil Twyford will no longer guarantee that KiwiBuild will be made up of 100,000 affordable homes, but won't say whether that target has been scrapped either.The Government's flagship housing policy is being "recalibrated" after an admission this year that it was unlikely to meet its first target of 1000 affordable homes built by July 1 2019. Just 80 have been built so far.When the scheme was put under review, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Twyford both were emphatic that the target of building 100,000 affordable homes over 10 years would remain.But is it still achievable? And if not, should the programme still be promoted?CEO of the Property Council Leonie Freeman joined the Weekend Collective to discuss the Government scheme. 

Green Party co-leader Marama Davidson says the 70 per cent increase in people waiting for state housing shows that the system is broken. The number of people in the urgent queue for social housing has passed 10,000 - a 70 per cent increase in the last year.The Green Party housing spokesperson told Kate Hawkesby it is a huge jump, which highlights the severity of New Zealand's housing crisis."We are seeing the manifestation, the sharp end of that coming to a head. I'm not confident that it also won't get worse."She said this shows the system is clearly broken and needs urgent action."There clearly is something that isn't working when you have got 10,000 on the waiting list.""I talked to a man last night, who is one of the many, many broken-hearted stories, about how desperate he is to find just clean, decent housing [and] how difficult that is to be affordable."Davidson said they are supporting Housing Minister Phil Twyford and the Government's aim to build 8000 homes by 2023."We know there is an issue and we want to work and continuing supporting Minister Twyford to ramp up the public and state housing build and I know that he is already on this."Davidson said the housing issue is a massive crisis that won't be fixed overnight."That's why the Greens are very clear that we need to look at a whole lot of things alongside each other.""Rent reforms, making sure that people have secure tenancies [becuase] we know that this can also see people driven into a situation of having no home.""We need to understand that affordability is driving people out of the private market of renting and we have been very clear, that we want to ensure that epope have enough income to live with dignity.""These things all need to be looked at alongside the housing prices."When asked whether allowing state tenants to live in their homes indefinitely was contributing to the crisis, she said they have to ensure ordinary people can get into the private housing sector first.

National MP Judith Collins has hit out at the Government, saying getting rid of targets is just spin and they have "bugger all" chance of building 100,000 houses in 10 years.Yesterday, the Government announced they are getting rid of KiwiBuild targets after Housing Minister Phil Twyford admitted they won't meet their first-year target.READ MORE: KiwiBuild scraps yearly targets as part of "recalibration"However, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the Government will still build 100,000 houses in 10 years.Judith Collins told Kate Hawkesby it is very unlikely that they will deliver in their 10-year promise if they can't deliver on year one."If you can't reach the first year, you can't reach the second year and you can't reach the third year target, you have bugger all chance of meeting the 10 year target.""This is not make a wish, this is actually make a house and they don't seem to know what they are doing."Phil Twyford said getting rid of targets is simply a KiwiBuild "recalibration".However, Collins said that's just spin to make it look like less of a failure."It's just saying the same things over and over again, totally spinning it."The MP did conceed that National didn't do enough around resource management reform and planning when they were in power.However, she said they certainly made some "very big moves" when it came to building houses."There was a 180,000 built in the nine years that we were in Government and when you look at the private sector in the 15-months that Phil Twyford is in the job...the private sector has built 35,200 homes and the Government has not built 46."She said those numbers show that KiwiBuild is not the solution to the housing problem."You don't fix the housing situation by doing what these people have done. They have spent in their first six-months since they came into Government, $100 million of taxpayer money on no houses at all.""What we did [National] is we ended up with the Hobson land development...that was all under National Government. The Tamaki re-development all of that done under a National Government.""We were doing it but also we had to bring in Resource Management Act reforms and the reforms we could get through parliament were not the ones we wanted."

Housing Minister Phil Twyford has admitted his flagship KiwiBuild policy will fall well short of its first-year target.The Government had previously said it would have 1000 KiwiBuild homes built by July this year, but only 300 are expected to be built.Leonie Freeman is the CEO of the Property Council. She joined The Weekend Collective on The One Roof Radio Show to share her thoughts on the controversial and problem riddled Kiwibuild program.LISTEN TO THE AUDIO ABOVE

Housing Minister Phil Twyford has come out and said he is troubled by databases which advocate fear into tenants for approaching the Tenancy Tribunal. We ask mortgage expert Sara Hartigan is this fair? LISTEN TO THE FULL DISCUSSION WITH THE WEEKEND COLLECTIVE ABOVE 

Housing Minister Phil Twyford told Chris Lynch he blames the previous National Government for the meth contamination scare. He says this problem is a failure to apply decent science to a public policy problem.

Our most vulnerable citizens need a better safety net.The Housing Minister blames rising numbers of homeless on a lack of support for those at the bottom.Latest Ministry of Social Development figures show over 8700 eligible families are waiting an average 137 days, to be housed.That's up over 50 percent from the same time last year.Housing Minister Phil Twyford told Chris Lynch the Government and other agencies need to take collective responsibility.

On Tuesday I wrote an editorial about the housing crisis and this government’s approach to it through Kiwi Build. In it I essentially advised the government to get out of the building business and get stuck into all the things that stop builders building and developers developing. It might be worth me repeating my conclusions. I said that if they go into the building business they’re going to hit all the same problems private developers have had for generations.If they want to speed up supply they should be spending time and money on the impediments. Rather than building houses they should be laying water and power onto greenfield sites and improving the infrastructure for intensification projects. They should be streamlining consent processes and helping councils gear up to cope with more work. They should be strengthening credit lines to the developers who know what they’re doingThey should be building transport and roading to these new developments rather than leaving new home owners stuck in traffic jams in the middle of nowhere. Well I don’t know if they were listening but it seems like they’re finally coming to the same conclusion. Yesterday Newshub reported a change in the language from Housing Minister Phil Twyford. The KiwiBuild promise was to build 100,000 affordable homes, but the word 'build' has now gone by the wayside.Now in official documentation, it's been replaced with this: "KiwiBuild aims to facilitate the delivery of 100,000 affordable dwellings." Political observors are noting this is a broken promise and thrashing the government for it and that’s fair enough. But out of the beltway and in the real world I’d like to say this: I want to congratulate the government and Mr Twyford.It takes a big man to admit that they were wrong. Even though it’s taken a year pointing out that the government building 100,000 houses was improbable and that the real impediments are in red tape and infrastructure and capacity it appears that someone with brains has been listening and thinking. So let’s get on with it Minister. You’ve wasted six months of this government's time because of a poorly formulated election promise and a memo to all, stop speaking in slogans.

Homeless people seeking hardship grants from Work and Income to buy tents to live in is a sign of how bad the housing crisis is, Housing Minister Phil Twyford says.But he and Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni are putting an end to the practice."Work and Income New Zealand, it turns out, have been providing tents for people who are homeless."When I heard about this I immediately spoke to Minister Carmel Sepuloni, Minister of Social Development and she decided with me that that's not acceptable. The Government doesn't provide tents for homeless people. We'll put a roof over their heads."So we've knocked that policy on the head," Twyford told Newstalk ZB's Chris Lynch today.One News reported on Thursday that in the past year 20 families had asked for hardship grants through Work and Income to buy a tent to live in."We were shocked by it. It might have been OK under the former National Government, it's not OK under ours," Twyford said.He said Work and Income had been told that the policy was unacceptable and had to stop.Twyford said homelessness was going to get worse before it gets better."The waiting list for state housing has been going up quite dramatically. It's now in the region of 10,000."