Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS (Minister of Housing): Kia orana, Mr Speaker. As part of the Government's plan to tackle the national housing crisis, we're delivering more public homes outside New Zealand's main urban centres. The Public Housing Plan 2021-2024 focuses on building new public and transitional homes where they are most needed, including regional centres and towns where housing demand is growing fastest. This wasn't happening before. In order to do this we're building effective collaborative partnerships between Government, iwi and Māori, community housing providers, local government, and the construction industry. We've also changed the funding settings for community housing providers (CHPs) and Kāinga Ora which has enabled them to claim a higher operating supplement to incentivise developments in priority locations. Changes to the rent maxima has also enabled CHPs to build outside of our main centres. There is no silver bullet to solving the national housing crisis that we inherited, and there is plenty more work to do. But our Government is continuing to invest to boost the supply of public homes in our regional towns and centres.