Jacinda Ardern and Phil Twyford say that KiwiBuild is going through a "recalibration" and interim targets have been dropped.
The Prime Minister addressed media with the Housing Minister at a Labour retreat in Martinborough today, where MPs gathered to discuss the upcoming year.
When asked if the Government's KiwiBuild targets were still tenable after the announcement that only 300 homes will be complete in the first year of the programme instead of the 1000 stated, Ms Ardern announced that all interim targets have now been dropped.
"Our 100,000 over 10 years hasn't changed, our interim targets haven't been a useful way to demonstrate our delivery programme that's why the minister is looking at that again.
"We still need to be transparent, we still need to demonstrate to voters the progress we're making and our ultimate goal of 100,000 houses has not changed," Ms Ardern said.
The Government had promised to build 10,000 KiwiBuild homes by 2020/21 and 12,000 every year after that until 2028.
Mr Twyford said that KiwiBuild is undergoing a "recalibration" and the programme remained an ambitious one.
"I would regard it as a recalibration where we're working really hard to improve and refine what we're doing to make it work better, we're six months into a ten month programme.
"No Government in the last 40 years has seriously tried to do what we're doing and that's change a failed market that hasn't been building affordable homes so it's not easy, if it was easy maybe the former Government would have done it," he said.
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