Hon POTO WILLIAMS (Associate Minister of Housing (Public Housing)): The housing register reflects the strong emphasis that we have placed on people coming forward and telling us if they need housing support, and the long-standing failure to build the homes New Zealanders need that we inherited. The register has increased by 20,485 applications since September 2017, when there were 5,844 applications. The median days to house is 234. Since September 2017, we have housed 29,501 households, and in that time we have overseen record building consents, up 25 percent on 2021, added over 8,900 new public homes, and we are on track to deliver the 18,000 additional public and transitional homes to be built and delivered by 2024.