Hon CHRIS HIPKINS (Leader of the House) on behalf of the Associate Minister of Housing (Public Housing): Yes. The Government has always been clear that it is going to take some time to reverse the damage that nine years of neglect caused. Five thousand State houses were removed from the State housing list under the last Government. Since we took office, we've created 4,258 new public housing spaces, and we have a further 3,480 houses under construction. If that rate of progress had been in place over the nine years prior to when we became the Government, we would not have a State house waiting list at all. 