Minister of Housing and Urban Development

Minister of Housing and Urban Development
Incumbent
Phil Twyford[1]
since 26 October 2017
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, Ministry of Social Development, Housing New Zealand Corporation, New Zealand Treasury
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 and Urban Development 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 Phil Twyford, 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.[6]

List of Ministers

Colour key (for political parties)

  Labour  

  National  

No. Name Portrait Term of Office Prime Minister
As Minister in charge of Housing
1 Tim Armstrong 13 December 1938 8 November 1942† Savage
Fraser
As Minister in charge of Housing Construction
2 Bob Semple 9 December 1942 December 1945 Fraser
1945–1949: See Minister of Works
3 William Goosman 13 December 1949 9 September 1953 Holland
As Minister of Housing
4 Bill Sullivan 9 September 1953 13 February 1957 Holland
5 Dean Eyre 13 February 1957 26 September 1957
Holyoake
6 John Rae 26 September 1957 12 December 1957
7 Bill Fox 12 December 1957 12 December 1960 Nash
(6) John Rae 12 December 1960 9 February 1972 Holyoake
Marshall
8 Eric Holland 9 February 1972 8 December 1972
9 William Fraser 8 December 1972 10 September 1974 Kirk
Rowling
10 Roger Douglas 10 September 1974 12 December 1975
11 George Gair 12 December 1975 8 March 1977 Muldoon
(8) Eric Holland 8 March 1977 13 December 1978
12 Derek Quigley 13 December 1978 15 June 1982
13 Tony Friedlander 15 June 1982 26 July 1984
14 Phil Goff 26 July 1984 24 August 1987 Lange
15 Helen Clark 24 August 1987 14 August 1989
Palmer
16 Jonathan Hunt 14 August 1989 2 November 1990
Moore
17 John Luxton 2 November 1990 29 November 1993 Bolger
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
19 Mark Gosche 10 December 1999 12 May 2003 Clark
20 Steve Maharey 12 May 2003 (acting)
19 May 2003		 19 October 2005
21 Chis Carter 19 October 2005 5 November 2007
22 Maryan Street 5 November 2007 19 November 2008
23 Phil Heatley 19 November 2008 22 January 2013 Key
24 Nick Smith 22 January 2013 8 October 2014
As Minister for Building and Housing
(24) Nick Smith 8 October 2014 20 December 2016a Key
English
As Minister for Social Housing
25 Paula Bennett 8 October 2014 20 December 2016a Key
English
26 Amy Adams 20 December 2016 26 October 2017
As Minister of Housing and Urban Development
27 Phil Twyford 26 October 2017 present Ardern

Notes

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

References

  1. 1 2 "Ministerial List". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
  2. ↑ "Parliamentary Salaries and Allowances Determination 2016" (PDF). Parliament.nz. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  3. 1 2 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.
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