Housing policy: where every party stands

Strongly opposed on property-rights and supply grounds.

Campaigning on a Renters' Rights Bill capping rent rises at 2% a year, scrapping no-cause evictions and creating a rental warrant of fitness.

Supports stronger renter protections and previously removed no-cause evictions in government, but has not adopted a hard rent cap.

Opposed, restored no-cause evictions in government and argues rent caps reduce rental supply.

Prefers supply-side and ownership measures such as Crown co-investment for first-home buyers over rent regulation.

Supports strong renter protections and action on property speculation and vacant homes.

Opposed, argues the shortage is caused by planning rules, and that the state should free up land rather than build.

Campaigning to build 40,000 new public homes over five years, delivered partly through a new Ministry of Green Works.

Would raise the Crown guarantee for community housing providers' social bonds to get more homes built, a smaller-scale approach than the Greens'.

Prefers planning reform and community housing providers to large-scale state building, and has reduced Kāinga Ora's build programme.

No large public-build commitment; focused instead on Crown co-investment to get first-home buyers into private ownership.

Wants a major expansion of public and affordable housing, plus easier home-building on Māori and ancestral land.

Strongly supports deductibility, treating the 2021 removal as an arbitrary tax on one industry.

Would remove interest deductibility for residential landlords again, arguing the tax break inflates house prices and costs billions.

No decided position. Labour removed deductibility in government but says it has not decided whether to reinstate the removal, and will confirm when it releases its fiscal plan.

Restored full interest deductibility in government, phasing it back to 100% from 1 April 2025, arguing landlords should be taxed like any other business.

Supported restoring deductibility as part of the coalition's tax changes.

Opposes tax advantages for property investors, arguing they push home ownership further out of reach for whānau.

Central housing policy, argues planning restrictions are the root cause of unaffordable housing, and backed the Regulatory Standards Act to constrain rule-making.

Opposed, would revoke consents granted under the Fast-track Approvals Act and supports density near transport rather than weakening environmental protection.

Supported urban density reform in government but opposes the coalition's fast-track ministerial powers, and would repeal the Regulatory Standards Act within 100 days.

Replacing the RMA with a new planning system and passed the Fast-track Approvals Act to let ministers approve major projects outside normal consenting.

Its published policy commits to a special economic zone at Marsden Point with relief from planning rules, and its resources minister has pushed to move fast-track consenting to a more development-focused body.

Opposed, argues fast-track consenting removes the scrutiny and Tiriti consultation that major projects should face.

Strongly opposed to landlord regulation, treats it as regulatory overreach into private property.

Campaigning on an independently certified rental warrant of fitness and a national landlords register.

Introduced the Healthy Homes standards in government and supports strengthening them, short of a full WoF regime.

Has eased Healthy Homes compliance timelines, arguing extra cost on landlords is passed to tenants as rent.

Sceptical of added landlord compliance costs, framing them as a driver of higher rents.

Supports enforceable housing quality standards, citing the health burden of cold, damp housing on whānau.