Hon AUPITO WILLIAM SIO: A Salvation Army report in October 2019 called the "Housing Crisis in Aotearoa Facing Pasifika People in Aotearoa" said that more than 70 percent of Pacific people in Auckland were renting. In another report called "Housing in Aotearoa: 2020", it shows that in 2018, Māori and Pacific peoples were less likely to own their own home or hold it in a family trust than any other ethnic group, and were also more likely to live in public housing. That same report concluded that the decline in homeownership has occurred unevenly since the 1990s, with greater falls for Māori and Pacific peoples and in the Auckland region, where the largest number of Pacific people live. Social housing has allowed our families to have a roof over their head, but this generation wants to own that roof and build intergenerational wealth for them and their children, as the generation before them had done. We cannot create intergenerational wealth through social housing, and why this initial project, partnering with Ngati Toa and the Central Pacific Collective, is so critical. We are literally building the template for homeownership for Pacific families for generations to come, by working with iwi and starting in Porirua East. I want to assure everyone in the House that this is just the beginning of a valued partnership between iwi, Pacific peoples, Government, and affordable housing for our families. I also want to acknowledge and thank the arohatanga and the manaakitanga of Ngati Toa for supporting Pacific aspirations.