Tçnâ koe Jack
 
Thank you for your email received 4 September 2025 to Te Tûâpapa Kura
Kâinga – Ministry of Housing and Urban Development requesting, under the
Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), the following information:

I refer to your response to my previous OIA request - your reference
HUD2025-006863.

Under the Official Information Request I would like an update to that
request and all parts of it. I note that you refused any part that is
subject to Ministerial advise or commercial negotiations.

[HUD2025-006863 request:

1. Could you please provide an update to the information provided in your
response and in particular the tables that were included in Annex One (of
the previous OIA response HUD2024-005776)

I also note this story in Business Desk:
 https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/polic...

2. Could you also please provide an update on:
a. any further BRD underwrites that have been exercised by the respective
developers, 
b. the number of homes acquired,
c. and the cost to the Crown to purchase the homes, as well as
d. information relating to the on-selling of any of those acquired homes, 
e. and the sales price obtained.]

I therefore add to this request the following:
1. How many of the homes that have been bought by the Crown as a result of
underwrites being used by the builders have been sold either on the
private market or to CHPs or other housing providers?
2. How many of those homes in 1. above are still under Crown ownership and
for how long?
3. Advise provided to the Minister of Housing on what HUD is doing to sell
those homes?
4. What the annual costs for the Crown to own those homes that are not
sold is?

In addition I would request:
1. I note in a reply to an OIA request to Kainga Ora that the management
of the functions of the KiwiBuild programme have now been transferred to
HUD - could you please advise how many staff that worked in the KiwiBuild
programme have transferred to HUD? Note in this question I would like to
know how many of the total staff that worked in the KiwiBuild programme at
Kainga Ora are now employed by HUD.
2. In relation to this question, how many, if any, of those staff that
moved from Kainga Ora to HUD received redundancy payments before
transferring to HUD?

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------------------- Original Message -------------------
From: [FOI #32204 email]; 
Received: Thu Sep 04 2025 08:17:26 GMT+1200 (New Zealand Standard Time)
To: 2 - [email address] <[HUD request email]>; 
Subject: Official Information request - Update on the BRD programme

Dear Ministry of Housing and Urban Development,

I refer to your response to my previous OIA request - your reference
HUD2025-006863.

Under the Official Information Request I would like an update to that
request and all parts of it. I note that you refused any part that is
subject to Ministerial advise or commercial negotiations.

I therefore add to this request the following:
1. How many of the homes that have been bought by the Crown as a result of
underwrites being used by the builders have been sold either on the
private market or to CHPs or other housing providers?
2. How many of those homes in 1. above are still under Crown ownership and
for how long?
3. Advise provided to the Minister of Housing on what HUD is doing to sell
those homes?
4. What the annual costs for the Crown to own those homes that are not
sold is?

In addition I would request:
1. I note in a reply to an OIA request to Kainga Ora that the management
of the functions of the KiwiBuild programme have now been transferred to
HUD - could you please advise how many staff that worked in the KiwiBuild
programme have transferred to HUD? Note in this question I would like to
know how many of the total staff that worked in the KiwiBuild programme at
Kainga Ora are now employed by HUD.
2. In relation to this question, how many, if any, of those staff that
moved from Kainga Ora to HUD received redundancy payments before
transferring to HUD?

I await your response within 20 working days of the receipt of this
request. If any part of my request is unclear, or if the information is
held by another department or agency, I would appreciate your assistance
in directing this request to the appropriate party.

Yours faithfully,

Jack Jones

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