That's not what Hone said yesterday...

Hone Harawira is claiming that the Mana Party's housing policy involving no-deposit, low-interest home loans is for all New Zealanders; 3News reports:

The Mana Party now says its policy to build 10,000 cheap houses a year would be for all New Zealanders, not just Maori.

The party's Ikaroa-Rawhiti by-election candidate, Te Hamua Nikora, released the policy on Thursday saying the first 500 homes would be built in the electorate.

They would be paid for by the government and sold for $200,000 each, with no deposit and low interest rates.

The policy hasn't been fully costed but party leader Hone Harawira says it would take $30 million to start it up - although at a cost of $200,000 that would build only 150 houses.

Mr Harawira says the houses would be sold to struggling Maori and Pakeha families.

"Our intention is to try to target certain levels for Maori," he said on Radio New Zealand on Friday.

 "The housing policy isn't just for Maori, it's for all New Zealanders."

Unfortunately for Hone, his candidate Te Hamua Nikora and the Mana Party, that contradicts the policy announced yesterday; here's how TVNZ covered it:

Mana leader Hone Harawira has unveiled a new plan to help Maori get a foothold on the property ladder.
He is proposing a scheme to build 10,000 houses a year for Maori, by Maori, and which can only be sold on to Maori.
"Our aim is to just give Maori the belief they can get into a house," Harawira said.
The Mana Party leader says the cost of the plan has not yet been worked out but he believes the entry-level homes can be built for less than $200,000.
Mr Harawira said the Maori buyers will require no deposit and pay a low government interest rate and he would also create a law to ensure the properties could only be sold on to other Maori first home buyers.
Labour has the same goal of creating 10,000 new homes a year for first-time buyers and Mana would need its support if it is to make the policy a reality as part of a potential coalition government.
But Labour leader David Shearer said their proposal was not based on race.
"Our approach is very much we build 10,000 houses a year, it's very doable," he said.
Housing Minister Nick Smith today rejected the idea and said the Government was focussed on helping all New Zealanders.
"The Government's approach to housing is not to take an ethnic based approach with Maori, Pacific or any other particular group," he said.

That seems pretty definite to us, as does the Herald's report on the policy release:

The Mana Party wants to build 10,000 state houses a year.
Mana's Ikaroa-Rawhiti candidate Te Hamua Nikora announced the party's housing policy today in Pomare, in the Hutt Valley.
He said Mana would build 10,000 state houses a year, 500 of them immediately in Ikaroa-Rawhiti.
Its policy includes reinstating the Maori Affairs Housing Scheme which ended in 1989.
The scheme would be updated and administered through a restructured Te Puni Kokiri, Mr Nikora said.
Under the former scheme, 23,500 houses were built and 5000 existing houses bought.
The party called for land to be made available to Maori in the same way it was being made available to local government and bodies to ease the Auckland housing crisis, he said.
Maori first-home buyers would be able to buy homes with no deposit, at the same interest rates that Government pays and with negotiable mortgage terms.
The policy did not say how many Maori first-home buyers would be able to borrow under the scheme or how much they could borrow.
Mana Party leader Hone Harawira said the party had done no costings on the policy but believed affordable houses could be built for $200,000 each.

So what is the policy Hone? Is it yesterday's one, or did Russel Norman lend you "Hey" Clint last night to do a quick re-write?

It seems to be the week for back-downs. Who will be next?