# The government abandons KiwiBuild’s original 100,000-house target after a documented shortfall

Date: 2019

## The fact

In 2019 the [Ardern](/people/jacinda-ardern) government publicly reset KiwiBuild after it became clear the 100,000-homes-in-a-decade campaign target would not be met on the original path.

## Context

Construction capacity, land, and financing constrained delivery. Phil Twyford then Megan Woods held the housing file. Ardern owned the 2017 number. A reset is not a finding that zero houses were built. It is a completed promise-failure instrument.

Child Poverty Act is a different file. Three Waters is a later water-infrastructure centralisation, not this housing miss.

A New Zealand prime minister chairs Cabinet and can recommend orders and bills. The House enacts. Police, DHBs, MIQ contractors, and platform companies implement. That office is not authorship of WHO guidance, Australian law, or a later successor’s repeal.

## Evidence and sources

New Zealand Government carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

Household housing-cost path from a completed supply-programme miss.

## What is established and what is not

Established: KiwiBuild’s original 100,000 target was abandoned/reset in 2019 after a shortfall.

Not established: A unique 2019 Auckland median-price causal share from the reset hour.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Ministers reset the programme in 2019 after deliveries missed the path.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies The government abandons KiwiBuild’s original 100,000-house target after a documented shortfall, not a later speech about The government abandons KiwiBuild’s original 100,000-house target after a documented shortfall.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. The government abandons KiwiBuild’s original 100,000-house target after a documented shortfall on 2019-09-04 is not a licence to treat every later New Zealand Government communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average The government abandons KiwiBuild’s original 100,000-house target after a documented shortfall into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to She owned the 2017 100,000-house promise. Ministers reset the programme in 2019 after deliveries missed the path. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Jacinda Ardern: https://factrail.ai/people/jacinda-ardern

## Drivers

- Cost-of-Living Pressure: https://factrail.ai/drivers/econ-cost-of-living-pressure

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-newzealand-housing-idUSKCN1VP0Y20190904
- https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/kiwibuild-reset

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/kiwibuild-100000-houses-miss