There are few things more important to New Zealanders than having a safe, warm, dry, secure place that they can call home. That's why this Government sees housing policy as critical to what we need to do to achieve our wellbeing objectives. We have a housing crisis that is decades in the making. Not only have we not invested in the critical infrastructure that is required throughout our towns and cities to build houses but we've also had a sell-off of our State houses in the decade preceding this one. We haven't had that ongoing commitment to building public housing, or indeed building housing per se and that kind of investment.