NICOLA WILLIS (National): I want to talk about a grave and serious challenge facing New Zealand that was not addressed in anywhere near the substance New Zealanders have a right to expect in the Speech from the Throne, and that issue is housing. In a time of crisis, with some of the most unaffordable house prices in the world, rapidly reducing rates of homeownership, and more than 20,000 New Zealanders waiting in urgent need of a State house, with an average waiting time of more than 240 days, what did the Government have to say about its plans for housing in this term of Government? Well, I'm afraid to tell you there was an absence of fresh thinking, and it is instructive to compare the Speech from the Throne from this Parliament with that from the 2017 Parliament. 