About me

Kia ora. I’m Gareth Hughes - Green Party Member of Parliament and Housing spokesperson. I took part in last year’s Big Sleepout and I’m really looking forward to doing it again this July.

Since I became an MP in 2010, I’ve campaigned to improve New Zealand’s rental housing stock through my ‘warm, healthy rentals’ campaign. It is only fair that everyone has access to warm, healthy housing and this can happen if we invest in housing and people.

I grew up in Gisborne and have a degree in Religious Studies, History and Politics from Victoria University. In 2009 I co-ordinated Greenpeace's Sign On campaign where more than 200,000 Kiwis ‘Signed On’ to protest government inaction on Climate Change.

I’m married to Meghan and we have two young children, Arlo and Zoe.