Safe, warm, affordable homes for everyone.
The Green Party is the only party with a credible plan to ensure everyone can afford a warm and safe place to call home.
We all need somewhere to call home — a place to rest, to share with our loved ones, to make a life or to watch our kids grow up.
A warm, safe home is a basic right. But successive governments have allowed housing to become a get-rich scheme for a lucky few, and a source of misery and expense for hundreds of thousands of others.
Far too many families are forced to pay through the roof to rent homes that make us sick, and a generation has been locked out of ever owning their own home. This didn’t happen by accident.
It is the consequence of decisions made by successive governments to privilege the wealthy few at our expense.
The Green Party will fix renting to make healthy homes affordable for all of us, and put the interests of people before those of property speculators and investment landlords. We will build thousands more warm, sustainable and affordable homes in the places people want to live.
Our plan
- Build tens of thousands of new public homes, significantly increase accessible public housing stock and fund more papakāinga to be built on whenua Māori.
- Make rents more affordable by limiting annual rent increases to no more than 2%, and link rents in a new tenancy to what the previous tenants paid.
- Strengthen the Healthy Homes Standards and enforce them with an independently certified Rental Warrant of Fitness.
- Expand immediate wraparound support such as housing first, transitional and supported housing services, and guarantee same-day accommodation placement for people experiencing homelessness.
- Require councils to collaborate with communities, including mana whenua, to provide sustainable, walkable, mixed-use urban areas and enable enough new affordable homes within existing urban areas to meet the needs of the next generation.
- Reverse generous tax benefits for landlords and property speculators that encourage housing to be treated as an investment, rather than a basic right.