KiwiBuild: Phil Twyford and Amy Adams – in their own words

The rush to register a KiwiBuild house is launched, with thousands of names on the first day

The government has opened registrations of interest in the scheme. home ownership yesterday when he announced who would be eligible. Those who earn up to $ 180,000 in couples and $ 120,000 as individuals will be eligible to vote and buy a home.

The houses will cost up to $ 650,000 in Auckland and Queenstown or $ 500,000 in the rest of the

At 7:00 am today, 15,000 people came to the website to express their interest. The government plans to have 5,000 KiwiBuild houses by June 2020 and 10,000 by June 2021.

Amy Adams, National Finance Spokesperson, said Morning Report that the government had set such a high income ceiling

Housing Minister Phil Twyford said high wages were also excluded from the housing market, particularly in Auckland, which showed how much the housing crisis had become serious

Listen to the complete interviews with Amy Adams and Phil Twyford of Morning Report this morning.

Amy Adams :

"Basically, it's a confession of Phil Twyford's defeat that it's an affordability system to the home to help low and middle income New Zealanders, he said that some of our richest and best paid people – people who could have hundreds and thousands of dollars in assets – are competing on the same basis as families who worked hard and hoped that it was really "

" The biggest challenge was for people in this income bracket of about $ 90,000 to 120,000 $ and yet, these people will compete with people who earn much more than that. "

Phil Twyford: [19659002] " It's an ambitious homeownership policy to give On the occasion, New Zealanders who, ten years ago, would reasonably have thought that they had every chance in the world. wave to enter their own home. They faced a 13 percent reduction in property ownership over the last decade and [there are] similar figures up to the $ 190,000 decile. This shows how extreme the housing crisis has been.

"Households earning $ 150,000, $ 160,000, $ 170,000 – this is extremely difficult in the Auckland housing market to own their own home. "Young professionals, couples, they worked hard, they earn a lot of money – they can not enter the housing market in Auckland, where prices are the highest

" Which is unfair "It's the housing market we've inherited that has locked out a generation of young kiwifruit families."

Will there be enough homes?

Amy Adams: [19659002] ] "We do not think that there will be many houses built, Phil Twyford says at best the first 20 months of his tenure that he could have 1,000." 19659002 "These houses are basically just right – Prevent private sector developments that could have taken place. "[19659002] Phil Twyford:

" The Market has failed to build affordable housing – it has completely failed. "

" We are just going to build affordable housing for people. "

" That's the Politics. "

Addressing the Housing Crisis

Amy Adams:

" The best thing [National] was to work very hard to increase supply in "

" We did the work we did with first time buyers around HomeStart grants and home loans.

Ms. Adams said the number of building permits was increasing under National. "I think it's all the work we do to increase the supply, change the planning rules, help the boards finance the infrastructure that cuts the special areas."

Phil Twyford:

do everything we can as a government to restore the dream of homeownership.

"We do a lot of things in the housing sector. We are investing $ 4 billion to rebuild and modernize state housing … we are reforming rental laws to improve the lives of tenants. "