Elderly tenants takes Tāmaki Regeneration all the way to the High Court – Tāmaki Housing

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Two days before the 2017 General Election, state housing advocates and supporters will march and assemble at the Auckland High Court where the appeal of Ioela ‘Niki’ Rauti will be heard.

 

Niki was fighting this eviction last election against Housing New Zealand. She is not up against Tāmaki Regeneration Limited.*

 

Niki is an elderly tenant suffering from illness. Niki is making a stand for the elderly, sick, disabled and for all tenants facing eviction due to social housing reforms and profit driven gentrification.

 

Tāmaki Regeneration Limited want Niki out of her home so that they can build unaffordable houses for private sale. Many of the new houses being built near Niki are selling in excess of one million dollars.

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The housing crisis will not be addressed through evictions, selling state housing and gentrifying communities. This eviction is part of nationwide reforms that have led to evictions, displacement, increased homelessness and transiency.

 

The regeneration of Tāmaki is an experiment for National’s wider housing reforms involving the transfer of state housing and the selling of state land to developers.

 

The private houses being built in Tāmaki are driving up house prices, and they are not increasing the desperately needed state housing stock in the area.

 

Families in the Tāmaki area have been torn apart with children moved from their schools, and elderly people from their support networks. This fight for Niki is a fight for all tenants facing eviction and displacement.

 

Niki has been fighting her eviction on the streets and in the courtroom. Housing is an huge election issue and Niki’s struggle is to draw attention to the destruction of state housing, communities and the removal of security for tenants.

 

Tāmaki Housing Group is calling for:

  • Stop Niki’s eviction / Stop all evictions

  • Keep State housing & tenancies in Government ownership and management

  • Lifetime tenancies reinstated

  • Secure tenures

 

Support Niki at her High Court Appeal, Thursday 21 September 2017 @ 9:00am. Meet at either AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY LIBRARY to MARCH or at the HIGH COURT, Waterloo Quadrant to ASSEMBLE

1 COMMENT

  1. I cannot understand how you can champion someone (single person) living in a state house that could house a family, on one hand you seem to believe that a state house is for life, a couple bring up 2-3 kids in state house and then when kids leave the house the parents cannot be moved (to make way for another young family) and they move into a smaller house. You cant have it both ways Martyn otherwise lets just build 2 million state houses and let everyone stay in their respective houses for generations?!

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