Minister of Housing (New Zealand)
Minister of Housing | |
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since 27 June 2019 | |
Ministry of Housing and Urban Development | |
Style | The Honourable |
Member of | |
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[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 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
No. | Name | Portrait | Term of Office | Prime Minister | |||
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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"| | 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 | ||
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| | Holyoake | ||||||
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| | 6 | John Rae | ![]() |
26 September 1957 | 12 December 1957 | ||
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"| | Marshall | ||||||
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| | 8 | Eric Holland | ![]() |
9 February 1972 | 8 December 1972 | ||
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"| | Rowling | ||||||
style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| | 10 | Roger Douglas | ![]() |
10 September 1974 | 12 December 1975 | ||
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 | ||
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| | 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 | ||
style="border-top:solid 0 grey; background:Template:New Zealand Labour Party/meta/color"| | 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 | ||
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| | 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 | ||
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 2016a | height=60px style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| | Key |
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| | 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 2016a | height=60px style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| | Key |
rowspan=2 style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| | English | ||||||
style="background:Template:New Zealand National Party/meta/color"| | 26 | Amy Adams | ![]() |
20 December 2016 | 26 October 2017 | ||
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.