You do not have to own someone’s house to help them, so why does Kāinga Ora’s Reset Plan envisage that it will continue to own around 78,000 housing units? After all, social housing can be owned by any combination of central and local government agencies, housing associations, community housing providers, iwi providers, not-for-profit charitable organisations and for-profit landlords.

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