Hon Dr MEGAN WOODS (Minister of Housing): The Government is rebuilding New Zealand's housing safety net with the biggest State housing building programme since the 1970s. We're seeing the green shoots of progress, with the Government adding more than 10,000 net new public homes since 2017, including 8,240 of these being brand-new builds. To put this in perspective, of the 76,450 public homes in New Zealand today, over 13 percent, or 10,216, have been added in the last five years. This is a significant achievement when you consider the remaining homes have been amassed since the first State house was built in 1937.