Helping households improve their homes
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Do you support the introduction of a ratepayer assistance programme for hot-water heat pumps, insulation, batteries, solar and other measures to improve the efficiency and help homes transition from fossil fuel appliances to efficient electric alternatives? |
Yes |
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No |
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There is a concern that households may experience pressure selling for particular products from suppliers. Will those taking up any ratepayer assistance scheme have the option of including an independent home assessment ($200-$400 per home) in order to get independent recommendations about the steps that most effectively reduce costs and improve health? |
Yes
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Yes |
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Will you support the continuation of the Warmer Kiwi Homes programme to continue for three years at current funding levels - or higher - beyond June 2027? |
Not yet formed position |
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Hot water heat pumps, solar and batteries help reduce load on the grid and reduce the cost of living. Will your party provide rebates for rooftop solar, household batteries and community energy as the states of Victoria and New South Wales provide? |
Yes
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Making building performance visible |
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Those buying, leasing or investing in office buildings do not currently have access to robust energy information on the performance of the building. Will your party require larger office buildings (those over 1,000m2) to make their energy use transparent? |
No
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People buying, renting, leasing or investing in homes do not currently have access to robust information on how efficient or healthy a home is. Will your party seek to establish that performance certificates are required on the sale or renting of a home, helping to improve transparency in the market? |
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Yes |
Raising standards for better buildings |
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70% of office buildings +$10m are certified to Green Star helping ensure efficient healthy buildings and reducing running costs for the taxpayer. Do you support certifying to green standards when Government builds homes or buildings? |
No
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Embodied carbon (emissions from making construction products and materials) makes up 9% of NZ's emissions, which can be substantially reduced through good design and materials. Does your party support building projects +$5m submitting their embodied carbon emissions at the consenting stage? |
No
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At present NZ industry and manufacturers are not able to source gas contracts or are facing very high prices. At the same time thousands of new homes are connecting up to gas each year. Will your party modernise the Building Code to require new-build homes and buildings to be all-electric, saving natural gas for manufacturing and industry helping keep jobs in NZ? (This is what the state of Victoria has done.) |
No
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Many new build terraced homes and apartments are overheating. Will you ask designers to check and control for overheating at the consenting stage as Australia does? (This is expected to be 1-2 hours work and will help ensure homes are comfortable for 60 years.) |
No |
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Ensuring responsibility is clear when building problems arise |
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Do you support the creation of a proportional liability scheme as is currently proposed by in the Building Amendment Bill currently before select committee? |
Yes |
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If so, do you support the requirement for home builders to provide robust warranties for homes and for apartments? |
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