The Greens have always stood for fairer, more inclusive communities, and the truth is that in Aotearoa today, the comfort and security of the wealthiest New Zealanders would be virtually unimaginable to those on an average income, let alone the poorest half of our society. The clearest indicator of the rot is the housing crisis and the record low rates of homeownership, especially amongst Māori and Pasifika. Last year, as has been well-travelled, house prices rose a staggering 23 percent. Thousands of families, who should have been able to buy a home, are instead funding their landlord's retirement through exorbitant weekly rents, which were up 5.8 percent last year alone for new tenancies. That is unfair and unjustified. We welcome the Prime Minister's commitment to accelerate housing supply and improve the emergency housing system, but one of these options has to include the possibility—wait for it, David—of rent controls. And I know that that has to include—sorry; I know that my colleagues on the right will blow their gaskets over this—but rent controls have been in place in cities like New York and Paris and Berlin for decades, and the sky hasn't fallen in. In places like Ireland and Scotland and London, Governments are showing what new, modern rent controls can look like. So given the scale of the housing crisis in New Zealand, this House ought to consider it as an option. 