Minister of Housing (New Zealand)

Minister of Housing
Minister of Housing
	Coat of arms of New Zealand
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	Incumbent; Megan Woods; since 27 June 2019
	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 Her Majesty's pleasure
Precursor	Minister of Housing
Formation	13 December 1938
First holder	Tim Armstrong
Salary	$288,900
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 and the Minister of Social Housing

The present Minister is Megan Woods, a member of the Labour Party.^[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]

List of Ministers

Key

Labour National

No.		Name	Term of Office		Prime Minister
As Minister in charge of Housing
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"\|	1	Tim Armstrong	13 December 1938	8 November 1942†	width=1 style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"\|	Savage
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"\|	1	Tim Armstrong	13 December 1938	8 November 1942†	Fraser
As Minister in charge of Housing Construction
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"\|	2	Bob Semple	9 December 1942	December 1945	style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"\|	Fraser
1945–1949: See Minister of Works
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	3	Stan Goosman	13 December 1949	9 September 1953	style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	Holland
As Minister of Housing
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	4	Bill Sullivan	9 September 1953	13 February 1957	rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	Holland
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	5	Dean Eyre	13 February 1957	26 September 1957		Holland
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	5	Dean Eyre	13 February 1957	26 September 1957	Holyoake
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	6	John Rae	26 September 1957	12 December 1957	Holyoake
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"\|	7	Bill Fox	12 December 1957	12 December 1960	style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"\|	Nash
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	(6)	John Rae	12 December 1960	9 February 1972	height=60px style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	Holyoake
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	(6)	John Rae	12 December 1960	9 February 1972	Marshall
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	8	Eric Holland	9 February 1972	8 December 1972	Marshall
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"\|	9	Bill Fraser	8 December 1972	10 September 1974	height=60px style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"\|	Kirk
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"\|	9	Bill Fraser	8 December 1972	10 September 1974	Rowling
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"\|	10	Roger Douglas	10 September 1974	12 December 1975	Rowling
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	11	George Gair	12 December 1975	8 March 1977	rowspan=4 style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	Muldoon
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	(8)	Eric Holland	8 March 1977	13 December 1978
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	12	Derek Quigley	13 December 1978	15 June 1982
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	13	Tony Friedlander	15 June 1982	26 July 1984
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"\|	14	Phil Goff	26 July 1984	24 August 1987	rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"\|	Lange
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"\|	15	Helen Clark	24 August 1987	14 August 1989		Lange
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"\|	15	Helen Clark	24 August 1987	14 August 1989	Palmer
height=15 style="border-bottom:solid 0 grey; background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"\|	16	Jonathan Hunt	14 August 1989	2 November 1990	Palmer
style="border-top:solid 0 grey; background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"\|	16	Jonathan Hunt	14 August 1989	2 November 1990	style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"\|	Moore
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	17	John Luxton	2 November 1990	29 November 1993	rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	Bolger
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	18	Murray McCully	29 November 1993	31 August 1998		Bolger
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	18	Murray McCully	29 November 1993	31 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
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"\|	19	Mark Gosche	10 December 1999	12 May 2003	rowspan=4 style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"\|	Clark
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"\|	20	Steve Maharey	12 May 2003 (acting) 19 May 2003	19 October 2005
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"\|	21	Chris Carter	19 October 2005	5 November 2007
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"\|	22	Maryan Street	5 November 2007	19 November 2008
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	23	Phil Heatley	19 November 2008	22 January 2013	rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	Key
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	24	Nick Smith	22 January 2013	8 October 2014		Key
As Minister for Building and Housing
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	(24)	Nick Smith	8 October 2014	20 December 2016^a	height=60px style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	Key
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	(24)	Nick Smith	8 October 2014	20 December 2016^a	English
As Minister for Social Housing
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	25	Paula Bennett	8 October 2014	20 December 2016^a	height=60px style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	Key
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	25	Paula Bennett	8 October 2014	20 December 2016^a	English
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"\|	26	Amy Adams	20 December 2016	26 October 2017	English
As Minister of Housing and Urban Development
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"\|	27	Phil Twyford	26 October 2017	27 June 2019	style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"\|	Ardern
As Minister of Housing
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"\|	28	Megan Woods	27 June 2019	present	style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"\|	Ardern

Notes

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

References

^ ^a ^b "Ministerial List". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
^ "Parliamentary Salaries and Allowances Determination 2016" (PDF). Parliament.nz. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
^ ^a ^b Craig Spanhake (2006). Ministers and Members in the New Zealand Parliament: 1996–2005. Dunedin, New Zealand: Tarkwode Press.
^ Nick Smith; Paula Bennett (16 May 2013). "Change from state housing to social housing". New Zealand Government. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
^ Patrick Gower (24 April 2017). "Bill English delicately knifes Nick Smith". Newshub. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
^ "Ministerial Portfolio: Housing and Urban Development". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
^ Walls, Jason (1 October 2018). "Twyford today launched the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, but what is it?". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
^ Twyford, Phil (8 June 2018). "New Housing and Urban Development Ministry". New Zealand Government. Scoop. Retrieved 1 February 2019.

[Ministerial_List_2019-1] "Ministerial List". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 27 June 2019.

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

[Spanhake-3] Craig Spanhake (2006). Ministers and Members in the New Zealand Parliament: 1996–2005. Dunedin, New Zealand: Tarkwode Press.

[4] Nick Smith; Paula Bennett (16 May 2013). "Change from state housing to social housing". New Zealand Government. Retrieved 20 September 2017.

[5] Patrick Gower (24 April 2017). "Bill English delicately knifes Nick Smith". Newshub. Retrieved 20 September 2017.

[6] "Ministerial Portfolio: Housing and Urban Development". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 26 October 2017.

[7] Walls, Jason (1 October 2018). "Twyford today launched the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, but what is it?". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 1 February 2019.

[8] Twyford, Phil (8 June 2018). "New Housing and Urban Development Ministry". New Zealand Government. Scoop. Retrieved 1 February 2019.

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