Minister of Housing (New Zealand)

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Minister of Housing
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Incumbent
Chris Bishop [1]
since 27 November 2023
Ministry of Housing and Urban Development
Style The Honourable
Member of Cabinet of New Zealand
Executive Council
Reports to Prime Minister of New Zealand
Appointer Governor-General of New Zealand
Term length At His Majesty's pleasure
PrecursorMinister of Housing and Urban Development
Formation13 December 1938
First holder Tim Armstrong
Salary$288,900 [2]
Website www.beehive.govt.nz

The Minister of Housing is a minister in the government of New Zealand with responsibility for the government's house-building programme. The position was established in 1938 as Minister in charge of Housing, and has most commonly been known as Minister of Housing. Other iterations have included the Minister of Building and Housing, the Minister of Social Housing, and the Minister of Housing and Urban Development.

Contents

The present Minister is Chris Bishop. [1]

History

The First Labour Government created the position of Minister in charge of Housing in 1938, to oversee the government's state housing agenda. Responsibility for housing was part of the Works portfolio for some years until the restoration of the Housing portfolio by the Second National Government in 1949.

Until the 1970s, the Housing portfolio was often held in conjunction with responsibility for the State Advances Corporation; the Corporation was dissolved and much of its responsibility transferred to the new Housing Corporation of New Zealand in 1974. In the 1990s, under the significant redistribution of responsibility that occurred following Jenny Shipley's appointment as Prime Minister, responsibility for housing issues was divided between three ministers: the Minister for Social Services, Work and Income; the Minister responsible for the Housing Corporation of New Zealand; and the Minister responsible for Housing New Zealand. [3] The Housing Corporation and Housing New Zealand merged into a single entity, Housing New Zealand Corporation, on 6 March 2002. [3]

A separate Minister for Building Issues (later Minister for Building and Construction) was established by the Fourth Labour Government as the Ministry of Housing was expanded to become the Department of Building and Housing. Under the Fifth National Government, the government's focus shifted from providing state houses to providing "social houses," which meant that income-related rent subsidies could be paid to non-governmental community housing providers. [4] While this Government had once combined social housing and building regulation responsibility in a combined "Building and Housing" portfolio, this was disestablished in December 2016 and divided between the Minister for Social Housing and the Minister for Building and Construction. [5]

Following the 2017 election, the Labour-New Zealand First-Green coalition government revamped the portfolio as the Minister of Housing and Urban Development. Phil Twyford was appointed as Housing Minister. [6] On 1 October 2018, Housing Minister Twyford launched a new government department called the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development to advise the Government on housing and urban development issues. [7] [8] During a 2019 cabinet reshuffle the housing and urban development portfolio was split into three positions; appointing Megan Woods as Minister of Housing, Kris Faafoi as Associate Minister of Housing (for rentals), and Twyford as Minister of Urban Development. [9] After the 2020 election Woods was confirmed as Minister of Housing while the urban development portfolio was abolished completely. [10] In early 2021, the Labour government was criticised by the opposition government and some housing industry stakeholders, who said the government has failed to address New Zealand's out-of-control house prices. [11]

List of ministers

Key

   Labour    National

No.NamePortraitTerm of officePrime Minister
As Minister in charge of Housing
1 Tim Armstrong Tim Armstrong 1935.jpg 13 December 19388 November 1942† Savage
Fraser
As Minister in charge of Housing Construction
2 Bob Semple Bob Semple, 1935.jpg 9 December 1942December 1945 Fraser
1945–1949: See Minister of Works
3 Stan Goosman Stan Goosman.jpg 13 December 19499 September 1953 Holland
As Minister of Housing
4 Bill Sullivan Bill Sullivan.jpg 9 September 195313 February 1957 Holland
5 Dean Eyre Dean Eyre.jpg 13 February 195726 September 1957
Holyoake
6 John Rae John Rae, 1964.jpg 26 September 195712 December 1957
7 Bill Fox Bill Fox.tif 12 December 195712 December 1960 Nash
(6) John Rae John Rae, 1964.jpg 12 December 19609 February 1972 Holyoake
Marshall
8 Eric Holland Eric Holland crop.jpg 9 February 19728 December 1972
9 Bill Fraser Bill Fraser, 1957.jpg 8 December 197210 September 1974 Kirk
Rowling
10 Roger Douglas Roger Douglas, 1965.jpg 10 September 197412 December 1975
11 George Gair George Gair.jpg 12 December 19758 March 1977 Muldoon
(8) Eric Holland Eric Holland crop.jpg 8 March 197713 December 1978
12 Derek Quigley Derek Quigley.png 13 December 197815 June 1982
13 Tony Friedlander No image.png 15 June 198226 July 1984
14 Phil Goff Phil Goff, 1989.jpg 26 July 198424 August 1987 Lange
15 Helen Clark Helen Clark UNDP 2010.jpg 24 August 198714 August 1989
Palmer
16 Jonathan Hunt Jonathan Hunt 1986.jpg 14 August 19892 November 1990
Moore
17 John Luxton John Luxton (cropped).jpg 2 November 199029 November 1993 Bolger
18 Murray McCully Murray McCully November 2016.jpg 29 November 199331 August 1998
Shipley
1998–1999: See Minister for Social Services, Work and Income; Minister responsible for
Housing New Zealand; Minister responsible for the Housing Corporation of New Zealand
19 Mark Gosche Mark Gosche.jpg 10 December 199912 May 2003 Clark
20 Steve Maharey Steve Maharey, 2008.jpg 12 May 2003 (acting)
19 May 2003		19 October 2005
21 Chris Carter Chris Carter, 2008.jpg 19 October 20055 November 2007
22 Maryan Street Maryan Street, 2012.jpg 5 November 200719 November 2008
23 Phil Heatley Phil Heatley (cropped).jpg 19 November 200822 January 2013 Key
24 Nick Smith Nick Smith (cropped).jpg 22 January 20138 October 2014
As Minister for Building and Housing
(24) Nick Smith Nick Smith (cropped).jpg 8 October 201420 December 2016 a Key
English
As Minister for Social Housing
25 Paula Bennett Paula Bennett Official.png 8 October 201420 December 2016 a Key
English
26 Amy Adams Amy Adams politician (cropped).jpg 20 December 201626 October 2017
As Minister of Housing and Urban Development
27 Phil Twyford Phil Twyford crop.jpg 26 October 201727 June 2019 Ardern
As Minister of Housing
28 Megan Woods Hon Dr Megan Woods.jpg 27 June 201927 November 2023 Ardern
Hipkins
29 Chris Bishop Chris Bishop (cropped).png 27 November 2023present Luxon

Notes

a. ^ ^ The Ministers for Building and Housing and Social Housing existed simultaneously during the period 8 October 2014 – 20 December 2016.

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  2. ↑ "Parliamentary Salaries and Allowances Determination 2016" (PDF). Parliament.nz. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
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