7 September 2020
Adam Parsons
[FYI request #13603 email]
Dear Mr Parsons
Thank you for your email of 26 August 2020 requesting the following information:
a) How many unique people and/or families have been removed from a State House Waiting List
for any reason other than being housed in a State House, each year, since the list(s) began
and tabulated by reason
b) How many unique people and/or families have been placed in a State House from the State
House Waiting List each year, since the list(s) began, and tabulated by priority category
c) How many unique people and/or families joined the State House Waiting List at any point each
year, since the list(s) began, and tabulated by priority category
d) How many unique people and/or families have applied to join the State House Waiting List at
any point each year, since the list(s) began, and tabulated by priority category if available
e) How many State Houses have been owned and available for accommodation, incl. occupied
houses each year, since the State Housing program began
f) How many State Houses have been owned but not available for accommodation for any
reason each year for any period of time, factored by annualised unavailability of stock - for
example, a house that has been unavailable due to renovations for 6 months would be
denominated as 0.5 houses
On 1 September 2020 you were advised that parts a), b), c) and d) of your request were transferred to
the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) in accordance with section 14(b)(ii) of the Official
Information Act 1982, as the information to which these parts of your request relate is more closely
connected with the functions of MSD.
Information relevant to parts e) and f) is provided in the attached tables.
Data is provided by financial year (1 July to 30 June) as at 30 June.
Data is provided for owned, leased and total managed state housing stock from 2008 to 2020. Only
total managed stock numbers are provided for the period prior to this.
Total managed stock numbers are provided from 2001, being the earliest date this data is held by
Kāinga Ora – Homes and Communities (formerly Housing New Zealand).
For part f) of your request, the number of vacant properties is provided as at 30 June. We do not hold
data to the level of detail required to provide you with annualised unavailability of stock numbers.

Therefore, your request for this information is declined under section 18(g) of the Official Information
Act:
“the information requested is not held.”
You have the right to seek an investigation and review of this decision by the Ombudsman.
Information about how to make a complaint is available at
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or
freephone 0800 802 602.
You may also find it useful to know that Kāinga Ora publishes quarterly statistics relating to our
housing stock, including managed stock and vacant properties. Please refer to the following link:
https://kaingaora.govt.nz/about-us/housing-statistics/
Yours sincerely
Rachel Kelly
Manager Government Relations
State housing stock 2001 – 2020
Owned state
Leased state
Year
houses
houses
Total
6/30/2001
59,597
6/30/2002
60,388
6/30/2003
62,750
6/30/2004
63,668
6/30/2005
64,670
6/30/2006
65,613
6/30/2007
66,539
6/30/2008
63,365
3,740
67,105
6/30/2009
64,333
3,260
67,593
6/30/2010
64,588
3,309
67,897
6/30/2011
64,800
3,348
68,148
6/30/2012
64,603
3,259
67,862
6/30/2013
64,208
3,167
67,375
6/30/2014
63,677
3,045
66,722
6/30/2015
62,870
2,879
65,749
6/30/2016
60,173
2,754
62,927
6/30/2017
58,813
2,613
61,426
6/30/2018
59,395
2,466
61,861
6/30/2019
60,632
2,452
63,084
6/30/2020
61,442
2,369
63,811
State housing vacant stock 2001 – 2020
Owned state
Leased state
Year
houses
houses
Total
6/30/2001
1,345
6/30/2002
770
6/30/2003
1,119
6/30/2004
1,173
6/30/2005
1,128
6/30/2006
1,056
6/30/2007
1,164
6/30/2008
1,151
97
1,248
6/30/2009
1,447
62
1,509
6/30/2010
1,241
90
1,331
6/30/2011
1,906
85
1,991
6/30/2012
2,711
84
2,795
6/30/2013
3,464
90
3,554
6/30/2014
2,482
72
2,554
6/30/2015
1,948
59
2,007
6/30/2016
2,372
79
2,451
6/30/2017
1,494
68
1,562
6/30/2018
1,381
63
1,444
6/30/2019
1,750
34
1,784
6/30/2020
1,342
27
1,369