In Focus - Labour Party leader Andrew Little has told Morning Report the lengthening wait for homeless people to get into state housing showed the government's programme was a failure.
In an interview with Phillipa Tolley today Mr Little said government should abandon its plans to sell state houses to community housing providers.
"Forget the state house sell-off, and get on with building more houses that you can get more homeless people into."
It's now taking the government twice as long to find accommodation for homeless people as it was six months ago, the Labour Party says. Video, Audio
The country's biggest non-government social housing provider is to buy more than 1000 state houses in Tauranga.
The government has put on hold the sale of hundreds of Housing New Zealand homes in Invercargill after the only group to submit a proposal pulled out.
Housing in New Zealand has emerged as an emergency, particularly in terms of emergency housing, say Toby Manhire and Toby Morris. Video
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