National’s new housing spokesperson has admitted the party was wrong to sell and convert more state houses than it built when it was last in office. Nicola Willis, who took the housing portfolio in a recent reshuffle, told RNZ the net reduction in state houses under the last National government showed that governments needed to continue increasing the number of state houses. “I think what we can see from that is yes, the Government needs to build state houses,” she said. Willis was speaking on the news that the number of households waiting for state housing had hit a new high. “We would have continued to increase the number of state houses, that was all under development.

Source: Stuff July 06, 2020 20:48 UTC