• One hundred people have taken up the government’s $5000 cash offer to move out of state houses in the Auckland region.

Social housing minister Paula Bennett says of those 45 had moved out of state houses in Auckland into private rentals elsewhere in the country.

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AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - APRIL 30: State housing is pictured in Panmure ahead of the New Zealand Budget release on April 30, 2015 in Auckland, New Zealand. The Government today announced it is handing over the ownership of about 2800 Tamaki state homes to the Tamaki Redevelopment Company and housing is once again expected to feature when New Zealand's Minister of Finance Bill English presents the 2015 Budget on 21 May 2015. (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images)
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND – APRIL 30: State housing is pictured in Panmure ahead of the New Zealand Budget release on April 30, 2015 in Auckland, New Zealand. The Government today announced it is handing over the ownership of about 2800 Tamaki state homes to the Tamaki Redevelopment Company and housing is once again expected to feature when New Zealand’s Minister of Finance Bill English presents the 2015 Budget on 21 May 2015. (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images)