Housing initiatives will feature strongly in tomorrow's Budget, but further help for first-home buyers is unlikely.
Instead, the Government will focus on social housing and freeing up more land in Auckland for housing developments, ministers said yesterday.
Finance Minister Bill English said Welcome Home and HomeStart subsidies were already "heavily used" by first-home buyers.
"We're pretty happy with the progress of that scheme so there won't be any enhancements to that."
Nearly 12,000 people have taken advantage of the HomeStart subsidy in the year since it was introduced, though only 9 per cent of them have been in Auckland, where demand for houses is the greatest.