The Government should be pursuing innovative ideas to encourage a surge in new house building: strengthening the national policy statement on urban development to bring urgent rezoning in our major urban cities forward; removing the Auckland urban boundary, as promised in the Speech from the Throne in 2017, but conspicuously absent this time around; making Kāinga Ora capital available to community housing providers—because it is not just the State that can build and supply social housing; why not partner with proven providers such as the Salvation Army to get those shovel-ready plans under way right now? 