Profit-driven companies dominate the government’s shortlisted group of four potential buyers for 1500 state houses in Tauranga and Invercargill.
Hong Kong property billionaire Dr Henry Cheng Kar-Shun (owner of Pinnacle Group) has joined with John Laing Infrastructure Fund and Brookfield Global Integrated Solutions to line up for profits from state house tenants.
Local companies Morrison and Company and Programmed FM are also keen to grab rich pickings from government subsidies for state house tenants.
Even the not-for profits includes Trust House Limited which is making money from pokie machines in clubs and pubs. Buying state houses is another way to profit from vulnerable New Zealanders.
It’s very disappointing to see local iwi trusts (Ngā Pōtiki a Tamapahore Trust and Tapuika Iwi Authority Trust) providing political cover for these money-hungry corporates who will demand first call on tenant rents.
It is also deeply disappointing to see local groups IHC and Pact seriously damage their reputations in helping the government sell state housing and abandon the responsibility to provide quality, affordable homes for New Zealanders who need them.
New Zealand needs more state housing, not less. We are in the middle of a housing crisis for low and middle income New Zealanders and only the government has the resources and the capacity to provide the large number of quality, affordable housing so desperately needed.
People interested in fighting this biggest privatisation in New Zealand history will be meeting in Auckland on 16 April to plan the battle ahead – see the poster attached with this story.
They must be mad to invest in housing which is more than likely to be contaminated with P and need either expensive decontamination or even total demolition.
Imagine the poor neighboor who lives next to you Andrew ……. having a nasty bigoted stereotype smear artist like yourself close by would be quite sickening.
With your ‘knowledge’ I’m waiting for you to tell us ‘brownies’ are thieves and all jews are greedy ..
Because thats the place your coming from ……….
creep.
REASON: Yours is an odd name for someone who just trades in slogans.
Firstly, I don’t have poor people living near me. 😉
Secondly, haven’t you seen the reports in the media relating to the costs associated with meth infested state houses? If you haven’t, follow these links:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/east-bays-courier/76628498/Housing-New-Zealand-meth-contamination-numbers-growing
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/77921195/scale-of-the-p-crisis-revealed-in-christchurch-housing-rebuild
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11582684
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503343&objectid=11584383
Clearly the occupants of these houses are scum who don’t deserve to be accommodated by Housing NZ.
Whilst ‘brown’ people do in fact dominate the crime statistics in NZ I don’t think there is anything inherently wrong with them – they have just been caught by a socialist welfare system that seeks to keep them trapped on the reservation.
As for Jews – you’ll see from my posts elsewhere on the Daily Blog, that I am a supporter of Jews and of Israel in particular. So try another angle for your ad hominem slur next time.
Your a nasty moron Andrew ……….
You don’t get to pick your stereotypes idiot .
I’m sure all the pensioners and other people living in state houses love your stereotype smear against them and their homes ….
To quote your ad hominem slur : “housing which is more than likely to be contaminated with P and need either expensive decontamination or even total demolition” …..
Great ‘reasoning’ from a hypocritical creep.
Going by Andrews reasoning if most state tenants are “more than likely” to be using P ………. then are the people selling it to them “more than likely” to be jews because they are “more than likely” to be greedy ?????????
Unlikely to be Jews because both selling and using drugs is a mugs game.
………. my examples were to highlight the ugly stupidity of your stereotype smears …….
Only a bigoted idiot would take it seriously or engage with such a brown shirt world view ………
and here you are ………….
p.s …….. naturally enough for one who uses bigoted stereotype smears to base their opinions on you are also wrong about jews and the drug trade……..
“In its annual report for 2012, the International Narcotics Control Board lists Brazil and Israel among the “countries that are major manufacturers, exporters, importers and users of narcotic drugs.”
read more: http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.553277”
Israel is at the center of international trade in the drug ecstasy, according to a document published last week by the U.S. State Department.”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_mafia
“Israelis At Center Of
World Esctasy Drug Trade
“In recent years, organized crime in Israel, some with links to criminal organizations in Russia, have come to control the distribution of the drug in Europe, according to a Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs document.”
A supporter of Israel? Oh dear. That’s some war crime shit right there. I feel sorry for the Jewish people and their situation, but supporting Israel is pretty sick. It’s a terrorist state.
Also, don’t believe everything you read about meth in the news. I’m surprised people fall for this moral panic so much. Sure, it’s a destructive drug, but less destructive than mould and dampness.
+100
More state housing assets sold to the highest bidder. More political cover.
More lies from Key and National that he would not sell off more assets.
We are galloping along to become tenants in our own country and be subsidising from the tax payer purse the corporates (mostly offshore) to do this.
It’s so disgusting! Are people going to put up with this?
@ John Minto.
You write:
” New Zealand needs more state housing, not less. We are in the middle of a housing crisis for low and middle income New Zealanders and only the government has the resources and the capacity to provide the large number of quality, affordable housing so desperately needed. ”
I’m in an arrogant frame of mind today so please forgive me in advance.
“New Zealand needs more state housing, not less.”
Yes, it does. Because those who’ve made off with our tax money have created a burgeoning poverty class comprised of poor working people and those bedevilled by on going unemployment, sickness and depression who are, in themselves, a fiendish resource for banks and insurers.
” only the government has the resources”
Yes, it does. And remember. We are the Government. We are society. I think that’s hugely important to remember and bang on about, to drive home. Our government are simply administrators, managers of our resources. They shouldn’t be making any decisions at all. They should simply administer decisions made by us. By society. Government money is in reality our money. Therefore when you write ” only the government has the resources” should read only WE have the resources”
” the capacity to provide the large number of quality, affordable housing ”
And where do you think this monetary resource comes from?
” The government can print it off I suppose or some genius like yankee doodle psycho jonky – stien can scribble fiction into a ledger and hey presto ! Billions !
Eye roll please …..
We, society , must lure farmers away from the thieves who are National and weld them to the rest of us. The rest of society. Once that happens, farmers can stop thinking about suicide as a career option. They can begin to farm holistically like they had done years before the toxic drum of lies spouted out by off-farm experts in suits with their widdle ipads. ( If some genius makes an edible ipad it might finally be of some use. )
Farmers are our money and yet National psychologically own them wholly and no one ever talks about that. But why??
Your housing wish list has its reality imbedded in our agriculture. So WTF for not talking about that @ John Minto??
That old New Zealand is gone now. Once sold its gone for ever. Unless your will to sell state asset for pennies on the dollar, only to buy it back again at a premium, then sell off once more for pennies.
All this Rogernomics bullshiting is a fucking stupid way of making money and a dumb way of running a capitalist economy.
Pfft. Labour force participation rate is down again.
On another note, I see new Zealands goods in stores are really shit quality
who would want them with their P smoking tenants?. As a tax payer I would prefer o company to own them rather than me.
I know this is a bit of an eye-opener for some people, but hold on to your Y-fronts, Dave. Not everyone in a state house is a P-smoking, wife-bashing, car-jacking benefit fraudster. Just thought I’d clear that up for you and Andrew. Don’t thank me; I consider it a public service.
Dave and Andrew – I note your only defense of National’s privatisation-by-stealth of State Houses is to exploit the prejudice that all State house tenants are P smokers.
It’s a riff of the all-solo-mums-breed-for cash, or the unemployed are unemployed by choice.
Your views aren’t rational or backed up by any evidence, but that’s not the point is it?
Your prejudice is the only justification you can rely on to support National’s privatisation policy.
As such, your justification is based on parroted cliches, and not much more.
Because really, you can’t justifiy National’s policy at all.
Natzis need the cash to pay the interest on the $117 Billion Debt they have run up since they were elected in 2008?
Welcome to the casino called ‘John Key’s New Zealand’.
Yes, nothing is safe anymore, even if it is nailed to the ground.
I am shaking my head in disbelief every morning, when I wake up and face the country and people around me. Is this for real? Have they voted for these ruthless robbers and criminal sell-out artists we have in government?
Yes, just over half the voters voted for National and their support parties.
And Paula Bennett, a former solo parent that lived off the benefit and got a cheap housing loan from the government, she is now the front salesperson to sell the homes to greedy “investors”, who consider their clientele nothing but pawns to earn more money from.
Others are mercenaries who have no soul as they sold that own identity long ago.
We have in Auckland one of the cities in the world with the least affordable homes. The average price is over 700 thousand. Going price for much of central and near central Auckland is now a million or more per home.
I am flabbergasted that nobody dares addressing the demand side, and also the overseas buyers, instead they simply say it is a given that Auckland’s population will grow to about 2.5 million in the next three to four decades.
Speculation is rampant, and the government only fiddled with some changes around the edges of the problem.
All Labour comes up is with a housing plan that may suit the middle class and those that have well paying jobs and can save.
Who does seriously believe that private foreign or local investors and buyers of Housing NZ homes will offer affordable homes under the market conditions we have now?
We are sold lies, lies and more lies, and in the end nothing will be solved, yes there may be some more social housing, but it will rather look like multi level blocks of units and apartments that are tiny and will have little space for storage and for living. I can already see the ghettos of the future being built.
Living in a decent size home with a bit of garden will become the privilege of the rich. Go to some places overseas and see how such larger, denser cities look like. Yes some may be doing a reasonable job, e.g. some cities in Europe, but in many other places there are endless social and environmental problems that will come with what this government plans.
But same as with the benefit system itself, National does not want people rely on the social security system, they want to throw people off benefits and drive them out of state houses, as they rather see them go out and slave for slave wages and poor conditions, as casual, part time or underpaid full time workers.
Go and save and buy your own will be the motto, do not expect any social housing paid for by the taxpayer.
Welcome to New Zealand 2016, where we are all just a commodity, or a liability, mere numbers, that have to be squeezed into some balance sheet for actuarial purposes.
Civil Disobedience is the future of this issue. What other creative ideas are there? I mean things that haven’t been done before.
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