Candidate profile
Housing, homelessness, poverty, inequality and institutional racism were key issues Te Ururoa Flavell hoped to address as the Maori Party's Waiariki candidate.
Mr Flavell said the priority issues in Waiariki were housing and homelessness.
That was why he had set up the Maori Housing Network Kainga Ora in 2015 which he said now had 100 housing projects approved for the Waiariki rohe [area] this year.
"Despite the $2.3 billion that will be spent nationally on housing this year, we need to do more," he said.
"And I am determined to deploy specialist navigators who will work long-term with whanau to get them into permanent housing."