There was a question mark hanging over the council's move this week towards selling its nine pensioner villages - what are the new Government's plans for elder housing?
On Tuesday, Tauranga City Council's Community and Culture Committee voted unanimously to press on with a plan to hand over nine pensioner villages to community housing providers.
Several reasons were given for the change, including the mounting maintenance costs the council could not afford without hiking either rents or rates, and better access for tenants to social and health services under a community housing provider.
Another reason was a subsidy, introduced by the last Government, that tenants of community housing providers could access but tenants of council houses could not.
Labour promised a different approach to social housing. On the campaign trail, now-Housing Minister Phil Twyford was reported by Fairfax saying Labour was "looking seriously at" policy that would give councils access to the subsidy.