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

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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.

 

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  1. Sorry but you have left the reservation.
    Regardless of whether method usage renders a house unusable it DOES render the user unfit to be a parent.
    Any child removed from the care of a meth user will be better off regardless of how poor the state care option is.

    This hysteria around how terrible the government agencies were in response to meth is pathetic.

    Just because these people didn’t damage houses with their addiction, does not mean they are decent and productive human beings.

    • What you say is not correct.

      The standard required by law is fairly basic. You must provide necessities of life and that standard is met even with a box of rices for food.

      Besides you assume the tenant who was evicted caused the contamination.

      • Oh, so you are all good with meth heads raising children provided they give them a few boxes of ricies per week?
        Oooookay. I’m terribly sorry, but I’d actually like our children to have at least a chance of having a full and happy life.
        Clearly you prefer to dance on the head of a pin in order to score points for some reason that escapes me.

          • So the question of baseline testing is another matter.
            However,.where a parent is found to be a meth head regardless of whether they are a state house tenant or not, the children should be removed from their custody.

            • Cough – there was no baseline testing, without baseline testing no one is certain who smoked what when.

              You are wanting parents kicked onto the street or their children removed if they smoke meth.

              How will kicking them onto the street help with their meth addiction?

              • Go back and read what I said.
                They deserve to lose their kids if they do meth, nothing more.
                That saI’d, i don’t have a bunch of sympathy for anyone who gets themselves hooked on that garbage.

                • I try to figure out what led me to think one way or the other, once I realise an article or faith I was holding onto for dear life as the basis for my argument is likely prejudice or just bullshit then it becomes much easier to walk away from said bullshit argument.

                • Great thanks, that’s precisely the attitude the gleefully compassionless status-quo right wing oppressors of the already oppressed wants you to have.

  2. I doubt the minister will be able to provide that. MSD has a track record of not being very organised when it comes to information.

    Few people have any concept of what she is up against in changing the culture of the place.

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