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# No Progress on Ihumatao Housing
- URL: https://goodoil.news/no-progress-on-ihumatao-housing/
- Published: 2021-07-07T03:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-07-07T03:01:07.000Z
- Author: Brooke van Velden
- Tags: NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 01:54

**Brooke van Velden**  
ACT Deputy Leader and Housing spokesperson

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Eight months after the Government made a $29.9 million agreement with taxpayers’ money to buy the land at Ihumatao from Fletcher, there has been absolutely no progress to build houses.

Worse than that, the Maori Housing Minister **Peeni Henare** has said he’s unapologetic and admitted that no other developer would take this long to come up with a plan.

> The money came from the “Land for Housing” programme and yet there is no sign of housing on the land.

**Henare can’t tell us how many houses will be built or when they will be built. He simply doesn’t know the answer.**

Taxpayers deserve better than this. This deal never should have gone ahead but since it has – the land should be used for the intended purpose which is to have houses built on it.

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The BFD. Cartoon credit SonovaMin

The Memorandum of Understanding states that a steering committee should be formed. It still hasn’t and there’s no timeline for the formation.

How little progress has been made is beyond a joke. This Government has proven time and again it’s hopeless when it comes to housing.

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