She noted the land just across from the Maraenui shopping centre had previously been a site of state houses that had since been taken down. "How can you take down state housing when you have people waiting for a home?'' She said half the 240 houses promised for Hawke's Bay would be state housing and half would be entry-level affordable houses for first-home buyers - they would be built under the party's Kiwibuild programme. Because the infrastructure was already in place where previous state houses had been located, she said the rebuild could start quickly dependent on the labour being available. Two of those visits would be before the babies were born to help Plunket nurses build a relationship with those families.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 11, 2017 22:07 UTC