Carmel Sepuloni must assure NZers that MSD didn’t remove children from State Tenants because of meth hysteria

I like how we now have to sell this as 1500 children being evicted because most NZers don’t care about 2400 beneficiaries being thrown onto the street…

Up to 1500 children evicted by Housing NZ due to faulty meth testing
Housing New Zealand (HNZ) has admitted up to 1500 children were made homeless due to the organisation’s use of flawed meth contamination standards in state homes.

…it’s the same tactic we have to use with poverty. Muddle Nu Zilind doesn’t give two shits about the 800 000 adults living in poverty because neoliberal mythology tells us that’s their individual fault, so we must always refer to the 300 000 children living in poverty.

The damage Housing NZ and the National Party did to the 2400 state tenants they threw onto the street and banned from accessing state assistance for a year goes beyond the enormous debts they were charged for the clean ups and the stress caused.

There were allegations at the time that MSD took children off state tenants because of the allegations of meth contamination.

We know now that Housing NZ were cruel and spiteful to their tenants, and we know that MSD and WINZ has a vicious reputation for treating beneficiaries with contempt so the NZ Government needs to assure the public that no child was taken off a state tenant because of this meth hysteria.

We need to hear from the Minister to have clarity over this social policy clusterfuck.