These are the people who have to go. They presided over an out of control Housing New Zealand Corporation with brutal, punitive policies towards the most vulnerable of people.
Here is just one of the stories. If you haven’t heard it then spend five minutes to listen and ask yourself why the HNZC board and senior management have not themselves resigned en masse in shame.
Housing NZ destroys man’s possessions
A man who lost all his possessions – including his wedding photos – after he was evicted from his Housing New Zealand home because a friend smoked meth there without his knowledge- says people need to stand together to get compensation. Evan Thame shared a house with his wife in Hamilton and was ordered by the Tenancy Tribunal in October last year to pay almost $7,000 for the unnecessary decontamination. He told me what was most hurtful was Housing New Zealand chucking out all their possessions including wedding photos, and other family mementos including his wife’s wedding dress.
NNZC Board members are:
- Adrienne Young-Cooper (Chair)
- John Duncan (Deputy Chair)
- Michael Schur
- Tau Henare
- Mark Ratcliffe
- Peter Dow
- Alick Shaw
- Sandra Alofivae
As well as Chief Executive, Andrew McKenzie, the executive team comprises the following:
- Greg Groufsky – Deputy Chief Executive
- Paul Commons – Chief Operating Officer
- Matthew Needham – Chief Financial Officer
- Patrick Dougherty – General Manager Asset Development
- Caroline Butterworth – General Manager Communications and Stakeholders
- Rowan Macrae – General Manager People Technology and Change
- Andrew Booker – General Manager Business Innovation and Development
- Gareth Stiven – General Manager Strategy
It’s not just the meth shame. It’s the failure over so many years to keep up a regular maintenance and inspection regime, resulting in the run down of the remaining stock. Don’t get me started on the selloffs.
This state owned organisation need to be taken back into direct state control and become a part of a Government ministry.
Neoliberal rogernomics has done enough damage to our social fabric and this must not continue.
Yes, sack the old boys and old girls network members, who rotate from chair to chair in organisations like Housing NZ Corporation.
Sadly those are the kind of people who get pampered and rewarded again and again, with new positions, even with knighthoods and the like, as the ones in power do not dare hold them to account for any kind of inappropriate actions that happen under their watch.
@MARC … summed up perfectly!
Its not just the meth shame its how badly they have treated people. My sister who has been mentally ill for over twenty years was given a flat in run down smelly block of flats where 2 murders had recently occurred and when I spoke to a women from HNZ to voice my concern. She said she was going to ask my sister if she was mentally ill, now who is the sick one here and how sick is that she was one nasty, uncaring, cold hearted and an unsympathetic bitch who should not be working in this area.
the whole lot need to go they are plain nasty and in the wrong job working in a area they are not suited. Unless they can show they have good grounds to remain I’d get rid of them. HNZ have always been racist and discriminative ( I know I was tenant for many years) but now they have sunk too low under the last government.
If you care about your sister get here to live with you instead of demanding that some body else looks after her.
No other economy has linked state housing so closely to economic performance.
I believe the saying was “you’re really scrapping the bottom of the barrel now.”
I had her living with me for 7yrs on and off and so has the rest of our whanau we have all had out turns you Mike obviously don’t know much about people with mental illnesses they wear their whanau down.
you obviously don’t know much about people with mental illnesses do you MIKE, my sister lived with me for many years but she wore me down our whole whanau have had there turn she has done the rounds. And at the moment it my mothers turn and she 75 and she is wearing her down cause where are all the homes ?
It’s pretty common knowledge anything involving Tau Henare, Mark Ratcliffe and Matthew Needham is about self serving greed over the betterment of those in need. Look at their track records!
Hi John, next to the names you need to add a column which reads how much they earn p/a, and another as to who they are accountable to. That would make for very interesting reading! Cheers.
tau feckin’ henare..?
are you fucken kidding me..!
Henare. Explains a lot.
we are being promised a new/improved housing new zealand..
one that cares for the tenants..
this mob of neoliberal-lackeys/sychophants are incapable of doing that..
of course they must go..
and tau henare..eh..?
his long history of exploiting/screwing over his own people continues unabated..
it really is all about tau..
..and he should be the first to be out the door..
it’s kinda puke-inducing how they get kicked out of parliament – as a demonstration of the will of the people..(supposedly)..
and they just go and line up at the ancillary troughs..
Time for a clean out. Maybe replace the board with reps from trade unions, organisations like Salvation Army, local bodies, a representative from a tenancy rights organisation, CPAG, a blogger or two from TDB and The Standard (to report back to us)……. totally democratise the organisation.
That’ll do for starters.
Now THAT is an idea worth considering, failing that , yes … a mass cleaning out and sacking of this cozy little cabal at the very least .
These ideologues have been ruthless with us and others,… its time for the new coalition govt to get ruthless on them. They are odious. Starting off with an inquiry into the management culture of those and related govt depts and the decisions they made.
Then working backwards.
These snakes need to learn a lesson and hear the message : of how there is a new govt in charge and certain practices will no longer be tolerated. Thus inspectors appointed to regularly (and unannounced ) monitor and inspect data and current practices. Anyone not performing inline with govt policy receives their notice.
At least that would be ‘fair’.
Which is far more than they ever were to thousands of New Zealanders.
Mjolnir: nailed it.
Yeh – and drop their salaries down. If you HAVE to pay these guys hundreds of thousands they’re probably not that good anyway.
Your comment Mjolnir is 100% the solution. What bothers me is why Twyford is sitting on his hands – those mongrels should have been given their marching orders as soon as Twyford found out about the Meth testing scam.
I hope this Labour Government are not another breed of the Roger Douglas mob. We were let down by traitors in the 80’s, we really need to see changes faster than what is happening right now.
Thanks for your info John Minto.
So much for the “personal responsibility” which those in “authority” demand from us mere mortals…
testing to see if I can reply to this
How about “personal responsibility” of the tenants ? Some people live like pigs – why should the taxpayers (via Housing Corp) clean up after them all the time ?
even the Salvation Army volunteers would give up
Because if we don’t there’s a danger of a resurgence of communism. That’s why we implemented the welfare state in the first place. So be carful what you say. You do not know of what you talk about.
and some pigs live like people Mike (Mr judgemental)
For years we protested politicians to no avail, but all the while, it was the non-elected Permanent Public servants, cronies and politically appointed executives we should have been protesting. They are the real Bastion of Neo-Liberalism. They’re the ones with a strangle hold on our Democracy. When they’re gone, that will be the end of Neo-Liberalism, but not before.
From now on, we need to devote our attention to outing and obtaining the dismissal of every card carrying Sociopath in the entire government apparatus. We need to constantly expose the true horror of the things they do on a daily basis to sell out this country, thwart ministers of government, hurt the poor and needy, and protect the rich and powerful. Name them! Shame them! Demand their resignations, and if necessary, prosecute them!
Only when they’ve all been frog marched out will the people we send to Parliament be able to implement the policies we voted for.
Crown Entities Act 2004 needs to be changed to reinstate the Minister of Housing’s right to intervene in all Operational and all other matters. Government advisers have consistently stated the reason Ministers of Housing have been unable to intervene in matters relating to HNZ was because of this dodgy legislation, yet no successive governments have done anything to change it. They are all culpable and should have their assets frozen and confiscated and the funds given back into providing/maintaining social housing. Apparently, since Helen Clark’s government introduced this legislation in 2004, HNZ has been free from accountability for the way they operate (including the maintenance of current housing stock, and the settling of all outstanding claims by tenants for sale and purchase of their state houses). Helen Clark promised these would all be settled, she campaigned on that broken promise, and she certainly reneged on settling ours. We received an empty apology from HNZ saying how very sorry they were yet refused to settle the property claiming helen’s preference to preserve housing stocks. My claim went back to 1994 when National had Landcorp over-value properties to discourage tenants buying, then sell off properties in blocks to property developers. I still have all the documentation. HNZC deliberately draggeed out the negotiation to their advantage by offering the property to me at an over-inflated price and then depriving us our right to contest their fraudulent valuation in a timely manner (we had to go to a valuer on HNZC’s list of registered HNZC valuers, but HNZ refused to provide access to this list until 24 hrs before settlment, then HNZC refused an extension of settlement to enable us to get the second valuation, this is all well documented and I still have all the paperwork). HNZC also refused maintenance on the property from 1994 when they offered it to me for purchase, and for folowing 6 years while the property remainined ‘under negotiation’. Helen came to power in 1999 but refused to settle. Legal Aid was denied for tenants to take HNZC to any court higher than the Tenancy Tribunal who lacked juristiction to settle outstanding claims of sale and purchase. Consequently we ended up very sick with toxic mould poisoning, and from the stress. My lawyers letters were ignored, and HNZ shredded my file at one point, probably thinking they’d get rid of the evidence, but I still have all the paperwork. I went to heaps of MP’s who did nothing including Mark Gosche in 2001, and sussesive Ministers of Housing Steve Maharey, and Chris Carter (who was the nastiest), and I even went to the Ombudsman’s office in 2004 who claimed it was not ‘appropriate’ for them to intervene… so this is massive corruption, made ‘legal’ by dodgy law … the matter is still a live issue, as although the Statute of Limitations ran out in 2004, there is a clause whereby, if disability or corruption is inviolved, the matter remains live. We have permanent health issues due to this. I am keen to get it sorted after all these years. I consider the equity in the property rightfully belongs to me, not to HNZC, and if I had the funds I would hire a lawyer to enforce the sale via the High Court, but unfortunately I have been disabled by HNZC and can not afford to take the Crown to the High Court, not even the District Court considering the degree of obfuscation HNZC practice. I am still fighting with HNZC to settle this, and had a facebook page before it was hacked and taken down. I paid market rent between 1994 and 1999 (over $150,000 market rent while HNZ dragged out negotiation to their advantage, and property was only worth $270,000 at that time, and they should waive the rest of the money as compensation for all we’ve been through). I still have the 1994 sales stats for the street to support that value back in 1994. It’s probably worth 2Mill now, but that equity is rightfully mine, not HNZC’s. We were hamstrung by HNZ and successive governmets (both National and Labour are equally culpable). HNZC have no right to rob vulnerable families of their ability to purchase property, or rob them of their rightful assets and fatherless children of their inheritance.
bloody hell..!..discover the paragraph..eh..? (it’s that button marked ‘return’..)
sorry for lack of paragraphs, didn’t know that was possible as some threads don’t allow for this, they simply post the comment if you try to paragrah.. am happy to repost with paragraphs if required, let me know
… also..
Re: Statute of Limitaions, the date I gave for this running out is incorrect, it actually only recently ran out, but there is a clause to extend which very much applies to our situation, so matter is still a live issue.
Crown Entities Act 2004 needs to be changed to reinstate the Minister of Housing’s right to intervene in all Operational and all other matters. Government advisers have consistently stated the reason Ministers of Housing have been unable to intervene in matters relating to HNZ was because of this dodgy legislation, yet no successive governments have done anything to change it. They are all culpable and should have their assets frozen and confiscated and the funds given back into providing/maintaining social housing. Apparently, since Helen Clark’s government introduced this legislation in 2004, HNZ has been free from accountability for the way they operate (including the maintenance of current housing stock, and the settling of all outstanding claims by tenants for sale and purchase of their state houses). Helen Clark promised these would all be settled, she campaigned on that broken promise, and she certainly reneged on settling ours. We received an empty apology from HNZ saying how very sorry they were yet refused to settle the property claiming helen’s preference to preserve housing stocks. My claim went back to 1994 when National had Landcorp over-value properties to discourage tenants buying, then sell off properties in blocks to property developers. I still have all the documentation. HNZC deliberately draggeed out the negotiation to their advantage by offering the property to me at an over-inflated price and then depriving us our right to contest their fraudulent valuation in a timely manner (we had to go to a valuer on HNZC’s list of registered HNZC valuers, but HNZ refused to provide access to this list until 24 hrs before settlment, then HNZC refused an extension of settlement to enable us to get the second valuation, this is all well documented and I still have all the paperwork). HNZC also refused maintenance on the property from 1994 when they offered it to me for purchase, and for folowing 6 years while the property remainined ‘under negotiation’. Helen came to power in 1999 but refused to settle. Legal Aid was denied for tenants to take HNZC to any court higher than the Tenancy Tribunal who lacked juristiction to settle outstanding claims of sale and purchase. Consequently we ended up very sick with toxic mould poisoning, and from the stress. My lawyers letters were ignored, and HNZ shredded my file at one point, probably thinking they’d get rid of the evidence, but I still have all the paperwork. I went to heaps of MP’s who did nothing including Mark Gosche in 2001, and sussesive Ministers of Housing Steve Maharey, and Chris Carter (who was the nastiest), and I even went to the Ombudsman’s office in 2004 who claimed it was not ‘appropriate’ for them to intervene… so this is massive corruption, made ‘legal’ by dodgy law … the matter is still a live issue, as although the Statute of Limitations ran out in 2004, there is a clause whereby, if disability or corruption is inviolved, the matter remains live. We have permanent health issues due to this. I am keen to get it sorted after all these years. I consider the equity in the property rightfully belongs to me, not to HNZC, and if I had the funds I would hire a lawyer to enforce the sale via the High Court, but unfortunately I have been disabled by HNZC and can not afford to take the Crown to the High Court, not even the District Court considering the degree of obfuscation HNZC practice. I am still fighting with HNZC to settle this, and had a facebook page before it was hacked and taken down. I paid market rent between 1994 and 1999 (over $150,000 market rent while HNZ dragged out negotiation to their advantage, and property was only worth $270,000 at that time, and they should waive the rest of the money as compensation for all we’ve been through). I still have the 1994 sales stats for the street to support that value back in 1994. It’s probably worth 2Mill now, but that equity is rightfully mine, not HNZC’s. We were hamstrung by HNZ and successive governmets (both National and Labour are equally culpable). HNZC have no right to rob vulnerable families of their ability to purchase property, or rob them of their rightful assets and fatherless children of their inheritance.
Wtf with the “approved” valuers?
You should have been able to get any valuer of your choice, or it would not have been impartial. Sounds like a breach if natural justice that should void the original decision. Sorry its probably too late to do anything anyway.
As I understand it’s not too late, as the limitation statute only recently ran out in 2016 (the 2004 limitation date in my above post was a typo, sorry)… lawyers letter enforcing sale dated 2004 with a 12 yr limitation = 2016, correct?… lawyers letter sent to HNZ but Legal Aid declined to enforce through courts, and HNZ CEO Helen Fulcher declined ever receiving the letter so a replacement letter was served… there are clauses to extend the statute of limitation if factors such as corruption and/or disability apply, and both these do apply so I presume the matter is still a live issue… is this correct?
I sent a longer comment that isn’t showing up. is there an issue with longer comments?
if so I’m happy to email it in.
excellent response Pip! maybe contact your local (Labour) MP for action?
Good work Mr Minto.
The swamp does need draining, and soon. The Public Service has ceased working for, or serving the public of NZ, and needs serious reconstruction.
Alick Shaw, the Wellington former Trotskyite?! Hope his pot is growing well in retirement.
All the govt welfare organisations since 84 have been mean, not in the spirit of 35. Disgusted and disgusts me.
WE NEED THE EMAIL ADDRESSES OF THESE SHITS! Can someone obtain them.
chucked out , made to repay any income gained from being part of HNZ or auxiliaries, banned from ever holding a Gvt, NGO or any other quango position
You can add to that list John. Those that have contributed to the death and destruction of peoples’ lives, who they are responsible for, to help;
CEO of MSD Brendan Boyle
Minister Carmel Sepaloni
Minister Stoner Twyford
…and 60% of the 7000 MSD/WINZ employees!
Re: Statute of Limitaions, the 2004 date I gave for this running out is typo, sorry. It only recently ran out 2016 as I understand. Last lawyers letter to HNZ enforcing sale was dated August 2004, and as our property comes under the older law allowing 12 years so I presume 2004 +12 yrs +2016, correct? There is also a clause to extend if corruption and/or disability is a factor, and in our case both these apply, so as I undersatand the matter is still a live issue… happy to be corrected on that though… can anyone clarify?
Also, if there are any other people out there with a dispute over ownership of their state house, perhaps we could organise a class action lawsuit?… any takers?… is this even possible in NZ?
I understand the matter is still a live issue.
It only recently ran out 2016 as I understand.
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