Labour says that Auckland residential building consents are falling well behind the Government's own promised 9000 homes for the first year of its Housing Accord.
Labour's housing spokesperson Phil Twyford says that although Nick Smith promised Aucklanders 9000 new houses this year he has only delivered 3417 consents in the first six months.
"At this rate the Government will fall well short of its own year one promise, let alone delivering on their promise of 39,000 homes over three years. The March 2014 figures just out show only 500 actual houses consented, which is less than the 511 consented last November, so they are going backwards.
Twyford says if the Accord fails then prices will continue to rise and the Kiwi dream of home ownership will become further from the reach of ordinary families.
"The Accord was supposed to work by bringing in new land through Special Housing Areas, but the Government's own figures are that the SHAs will only deliver 5850 new dwellings and sections during the three years of the Accord.
