Phil Twyford

A new team of ministers is tasked with renovating the Government's housing programme. Megan Woods will lead the new team and take charge of the beleaguered KiwiBuild policy, while Phil Twyford focuses… Audio

Auckland councillor Christine Fletcher is calling for all public electric scooters to be pulled from the city's streets until it's clear what caused the death of a man who died while riding a Lime… Video, Audio

Matthew, Stephen and Kathryn dissect the recent announcement of troop withdrawal from Iraq, details of a defence spend up and a likely end to the teachers' dispute. Audio

Housing Minister Phil Twyford says the building blocks are being put in place for his much-anticipated reset of the failing KiwiBuild programme, and he's also looking at launching a build-to-rent… Video, Audio

Housing Minister Phil Twyford says KiwiBuild is not a welfare scheme, and wealthy New Zealanders should be able to access it, along with everyone else. This comes after it was revealed a group of… Video, Audio

Provisional results of a non-binding referendum show more than 80 percent of Wanaka and Queenstown voters back a bed tax, which would be used to help fund infrastructure. Audio

The housing minister Phil Twyford says New Zealand has forgotten how to properly shelter its citizens - a fundamental human right. Mr Twyford was speaking at the re-opening of the country's largest… Audio

As at March this year, more than 11,000 people or households were on the waiting list for public housing. Housing Minister Phil Twyford says will exceed its state house building target in the year… Video, Audio

The House is sitting under urgency to consider bills related to the Government's Budget 2019 announcement this week. Here's how urgency works. Audio

Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni says she's already spoken to Housing Minister Phil Twyford about complaints about Compass, and recent concerns raised on Checkpoint are not the first she's… Video, Audio

A $6.4 billion plan to overhaul Wellington's transport network fails to fix the gridlock for commuters coming in and out of the city. The project includes yet to be detailed rapid transit from the… Audio

Councils and the government are describing a $6.4b transport plan for the Capital as a game-changer, which will unlock economic growth and shift people out of cars. Video, Audio

The government's taking a hammering over its flagship KiwiBuild policy after neither the housing minister or the prime minister would confirm outright whether the target of building 100,000 new homes… Audio

National Party is calling on Housing Minister Phil Twyford to resign as it persistently asks him if he can stick to the long-held target of building 100,000 Kiwibuild homes in 10 years. So far just 80… Audio

Housing Minister Phil Twyford says he doubts it's worth the time of the Housing Ministry to front up and answer media questions about the beleaguered Kiwibuild programme, when it relates to "minor… Audio

The Housing and Urban Development ministry, which runs the Kiwibuild programme, spent just under $5 million on consultants and contractors in the first four months of its existence. More than $1… Audio