The Government is making it easier for Kāinga Ora tenants to be evicted if they exhibit “persistent antisocial behaviour” and wants to crack down on the level of debt owed by tenants.
The move comes as figures show state house tenants’ debt has increased from $1 million to $21m between 2017 and 2023 and more than 450 Kāinga Ora tenants each owed more than $10,000 in rent at the end of last year.
This is a Party that previously misused Housing NZs own data to claim state tenant were making meth and kicked entire families out onto the street.
It was so appalling that the Science God had to step in and kick the filthy National Party and Paula Bennett in the face over the issue…
Meth house contamination debunked by PM’s science advisor
The country’s top scientists say New Zealand has been gripped by hysteria and are recommending people do not test their homes for meth – unless the Police specifically indicate it was a meth lab.
A new report by the Prime Minister’s chief science adviser Sir Peter Gluckman found there’s never been a documented case of someone getting sick from third-hand exposure to meth.
Sir Peter said there has been an inexplicable leap in logic in New Zealand in which clean-up standards for meth labs jumped to become a measure for passive exposure.
“There’s absolutely no evidence in the medical literature anywhere in the world, of anybody being harmed by passive exposure to methamphetamine at any level,” Sir Peter said.
“We can’t find one case in the medical literature, we can’t find one case by talking to experts where there is evidence of harm … it makes no sense.”
…all National’s ridiculous meth testing scam did was needlessly cost us $100 million and create homelessness during a homelessness crisis!
National are going to do the same thing with this new crack down on State Tenants.
There are 2 issues here:
1 – What do you do with difficult tenants with extreme social problems
2 – Lending the poor money to pay rent and then stopping that while demanding repayment of the debt.
The problem with the first issue is that redneck Kiwis don’t give a fuck.
With so much pain in peoples existence they have no patience or energy for those with severe mental issues or anti-social behaviour and Pakeha get sexually aroused hating unruly Kāinga Ora tenants. All this policy will do is generate more homelessness as National kick Kāinga Ora tenants out onto then street with no help whatsoever.
On top of this the Government will kick Tenants out who are borrowing money to stay in the State House!
These are the poorest people, borrowing money from the State to pay their rent and these numbers have spiked because of the economic turn down and cost of living crisis, so National will kick these people out onto the street ALONGSIDE THEIR DEBT!
So this policy will not only create more damaged homeless people with severe behavioural issues AND they will be made homeless alongside being inn crippling debt they can’;t pay back?
This isn’t a social fucking housing policy, it’s a recipe for social carnage in the communities of the homeless!
Remember, this Government can afford $2.9billion in tax breaks for the richest landlords while kicking state tenants onto the street for not being able to afford their rents while the PM was taking a $52000 housing allowance! he didn’t need!
Nothing sums up where we are as a people and a country right now quite like the manner in which Christ Bishop rewarded his staff for these 100 days of social carnage.
After slashing budgets and taking from the poor to give to the rich, Chris Bishop rewarded his staff with Crayfish…
…Crayfish for them.
Austerity for the rest of us.
$2.9billion for landlord tax breaks.
Debt and homelessness for State Tenants.
This Government loves bashing the people their right wing voters despise.
This isn’t social policy, it’s a revenge fantasy.
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This all looks like a prelude to selling off more state homes.
already under way .2 listed in TA last week and a couple in TK AS WELL .
The Wall Street sharks are coming for state housing. Vonovia, Cerberus, Fortress, Deutsche Annington and others want to add more slums to their portfolio, and their international lobbying dollars are always flowing to the politicians.
The reason the 1990’s were considered such a victory for the real estate developers is that new home construction actually fell after the mass privatisations swept across Europe. The real estate boards first started lobbying against public housing in the 1930’s, in order to defend artificial price manipulation (via land banking and slumlording). Ever since they have demanded that governments hand out voucher subsidies and tax breaks to large private landlords.
We should also consider how backward the new (non-state) housing stock, i.e. from local private developers, already is. The volume builders are churning out cheap, overpriced garbage: floor plans with pre-1930’s levels of floorspace, the very worst of 1940’s siding and roof cladding (fibro and tin!), and outrageously ugly architecture. Such houses were already considered unsaleable as early as the 1970’s; by then the median standard for single-detached homes was either split level or double storey, with brick veneer siding, tile roofing and central heating.
The earthquake stopped most of the desire for tile roofing in Christchurch. You are correct in that they mostly build cheap houses but they still want big money for them.
yer not wrong stand
The problem with the first issue is that redneck Kiwis don’t give a fuck.
With so much pain in peoples existence they have no patience or energy for those with severe mental issues or anti-social behaviour and Pakeha get sexually aroused hating unruly Kāinga Ora tenants. All this policy will do is generate more homelessness as National kick Kāinga Ora tenants out onto then street with no help whatsoever.
Maybe the ex kianga ora tenants could be kicked into a mental hospital to help them ?
No that means we will still have to look after the kids .Cant have that on top of giving them lunch if they go to school can we
The mental hospitals have been closed, understaffed, or reduced in capacity long ago so that option is not much better than putting people on the street. I guess that the right sort of people would get the help they need but for most of those in difficulty it will be tough luck.
Exactly the ferals can live in abandoned Mental hospital buildings. No Power No water no waste services, they should do pretty well there with their stone age attitudes. Bottom line the state cannot continue to throw good money after these people that refuse to help themselves.
Indeed Bonnie. Remember when it was decided that the mentally ill would be better off living in the community. A consequence of this is what we are seeing today with people not being able to receive the help they need in the community because of staff shortages and poor accommodation. We shouldn’t blame the ill people but blame the people who created this situation.
The being kind to tenants can be sheeted back to Paula Bennett along with her use of Motels for the homeless. Both of these policies now considered unfit for use by a bloke who sat along side her in Keys cabinet.
Why doesn’t Bishop have the balls to say we fucked up, now we need to fix it. But no, it’s easier to blame the product of a failed policy and bash that product.
Yes the number of former patients who ended up in prison or committed suicide was horrendous yet it got ignored.
‘Redneck Kiwis’ don’t accept the progressive belief that ‘society’ has caused these individuals’ problems, hence don’t accept it is the rest of society’s responsibility.
I bet you are a redneck. And love the idea of kicking people on the street without due process.
And guess what, society can be at fault.
Yes, colonization is all part of society’s problems particularly relating to inequities.
Hear hear Ada, always someone else fault. Govt is not your friend and socialism doesn’t work
“The problem with the first issue is that redneck Kiwis don’t give a fuck.”
yep, exactly. This policy will go down well with NACT’s core supporters.
Until all those homeless beggars end up clogging the shopping areas the NACT & Winston First supporters wish to frequent – then what? Execute the poor? (Version of this is pretty much underway!)
Trouble is the mental hospital makes them more mental nowadays they just dose them up with drugs and send them on their merry way. I was state housing tenants for many years put in the bronxs areas because I am a maari this agency was very racist this was one of my privileges.
Why single out Pakeha. I would just like to point out that the worst of them identifies as Maori (cmore) Stop making it racial. That is their tactic to divide when, in truth, its a class war not a race war.
Maybe we shouldn’t have kicked them out of the mental hospitals in the first place
I complained about some good old redneck boys and their rock’n’roll lifestyle to the landlord/owner of the place out the back of ours once – he just laughed. I went over there and told them to fuck up – and they laughed too. Where was 7 houses luxon and crayfish bishop then? Having a laugh aren’t they?
Kainga Ora homes need to be sold to private landlords. If tenants can’t afford the rental prices, they can move into government run tent cities or caravan parks.
Given the state took most of our Māori land they have a responsibility to ensure we have access to decent affordable housing, this is a human right no matter how bad that human might be. If the state doesn’t want to house our people, then give our whenua back and our people will do it themselves. This is why the Ministry of Maori Affairs had to provide our people with housing solutions due to the level of racism and discrimination of government departments and their staff. I went through this bullshite when I was a tenant.
But there’s nothing to stop Maori from housing themselves. Many do, most town dwellers do. Servicing mortgages can be a challenge, as is low income capacity, but all ethnicities have long bought or built their own homes, and still do.
Pip you need to have a look at the history of housing in NZ. If the crown returns land, we can build on it and provide for our own people with housing as much of our land was confiscated as was with many indigenous peoples who share the same negative statistics, why?
correct how many Maori battalion members returning after WW2were eligable for a state house or ballot farm ?NONE THEY WERE EXCLUDED on RACE .
yep – try getting a loan to build on Maori land – the banks will just laugh at you. I bet those unruly tenants are laughing too. they’ll just move on to a motel and nothing will change
Yes, Gordon my Irish Grandfathers family got their farm In Kaikoura this way, but my Māori whanau were not put in any ballot, now is this fair? Our war veterans also received a lower government benefit now is this fair. Who are really the privileged ones?
I wonder how many people are going to be kicked out for false or vexatious allegations…indeed for some people even talking loud can be classed as ‘anti social’.
Who are these ‘some people’?
Police reports of domestic violence, council visitations for loud music
Police reports of threatening violent behaviour.
You mean ‘these people’?
yeah – just like all those meth fiends cooking a boil up in the kitchen – evict them on a police report – they can hire my security company to do it. Crayfish Evictions Ltd. 021 take your kids and fuck off
yeah these people who were evicted under Pullya Benefits mysterious “meth houses tighty righty.
It’s all a question of perspective. A far, far more exciting, interesting and enticing headline would be ” State Tenants go after chris bishop.”
The national party are where they are because labour handed them a victory, we shouldn’t forget that.
Adern flounced out at a critical moment leaving her Adernadorers clawing at thin air while her stand-in flake, chris hipkins, all russet of cheek and knobbly of knees wandered in like a gobsmacked ether sniffer who got his Christmas presents far too early. Did he really say “But it’s a Kiwi Christmas. What do I do with skis?”
Hipkins SHOULD HAVE strode in to the MSM orgy and said ” Ok everybody. I have news. Everything and everyone within AO/NZ politics is bent as fuck. All of them. Except perhaps Chloe Swarbrick.”
National, labour, act, the greens, nz first @ maori party… they’re all fucked because since 1984 specifically they’re all the same thing. They’re all about money and nothing about the incorruptible management required of we puny humans.
Watch ” Asteroid City” btw. The Alien, is the very best Alien I’ve ever seen.
P.S. You know how we are, right? Fucked and all that. Well, we could be soooooooooooooooooo much better if only we’d take back the control of our politic and our economy. We could begin by coming to understand that it is we who are our politic. Not them. They’re just mean to us while wasting our time and our money. Doesn’t that sound like an abusive relationship to you?
Mandate voting. Banish the foreign owned banks.
All fixed by Laxative Luxon this morning !
He said he hoped that in families where the adults were being disruptive, there were “other agencies involved in looking after those children”.
” HOPED ” ???
Or assumes that all Kainga Ora kids have bad parents therefore OT has their hand in ?
Or the RW State will leach of charity as the safety net again ?
Ah well , the traumatised kids can phone up ” gumboot friday ” for the max of two free counselling sessions and the State can send truancy officers out to chase down the itinerant kids .
No one will be kicked out. They will be moved to another kainga Ora house in a different suburb. & Be given the support services they need.
Moved on to another Kainga Ora house that is what we did with our pedophile (mainly priest) we moved them to another area and school to carry on. Moving a problem does not fix it nor does it acknowledge the wider and deeper issues at play here and that is some people need a lot of help.
Yeah you only hear about priests in nz media never hear about the other religions .it would make your toes curl at what my cousin went thru and 63 other girls. But it kept hush hush
Yes, colonization is all part of society’s problems particularly relating to inequities.
Brave Bish!
He writes, from the safety of his Beehive office, to KO ordering them to adhere to his policy of turfing out ‘irresponsible’ tenants.
No thought given to the KO staffer doing a job they were never trained to do. They will be scared out of their wits before they even go to the offending family.
Very quickly they will call on the underpaid, under-resourced and equally stressed local police to do the job.
It will inevitably all turn to custard because the policy was fraught with difficulty and clearly all consequences not thought through – like many of this coalition’s rushed policy.
TDB got it right – ‘the reality is’: the clowns really are running the place!
Just give the houses to the Salvation Army and Iwi providers to run. Quite obviously the government us not up to the job, let alone providing damaged individuals with additional care. As for the threat of homelessness? Well sorry, but if you need three warnings to stop terrorising your neighbours then a law abiding community is probably not the right place for you. Maybe a tent city in the middle of nowhere might not be the worst idea after all.
They should be allowed to live rent free and abuse their neighbours.
Not forgetting the landlords receive $1.5 BILLION +in Accomodation supplements…..some ‘free’ market.
” Not forgetting the landlords receive $1.5 BILLION +in Accommodation supplements…..some ‘free’ market.”
We support and govern for plutocracy when it comes to tax and economic policy.
Everything else in this Pacific tax haven is exempt from consideration.
There was a time in this country when we were a community that prided itself on its equitable attitude to others. The vast majority of comments here show that even among lefties, this has gone. Everyone of you who spewed vitriol against the poorest in our society disgust me, and you certainly don’t deserve to be called left wing, because you bloody well aren’t!!!
NZ used to give the Scandinavian countries a run for their money as the best and fairest place to live with the highest score in happiness. It was based on a very low wealth/income gap and a home for everyone. State housing was at the core of this. Rent was pegged at 25% of gross income, and that set the standard for private rentals. Everyone’s wage/salary was published when Awards were published, along with the various salary scales. Consequently, envy and greed were minimised.
The 2nd ACT government under Bolger, did away with the HCNZ mortgages/1st home loans, leaving the State housing sector at the mercy of government expenditure and market rents.
Until we get a government that’s prepared to enforce by entrenched law, a 25% of gross income as the maximum chargeable for rent, under penalty of property confiscation, nothing will change. Until we get a government that’s prepared to enforce published wage and salary scales, and enforce a one to seven ratio between the lowest and highest, nothing will change.
Those two are the basic issues that underpin every other left wing agenda. Ignore them, and the left loses, both its support and any chance at government.
100%, Richard.
i’m sorry but govt housing is a privelidge, a privilidge that all are entitled to BUT this doesn’t give you carte blanche to abuse the property and/or your neighbours…housing should be withdrawn your punishment is renting in the private sector….I really don’t care about the reasons a broken jaw is a broken jaw is a broken jaw….the reason is immaterial
where does the authour live? and would you love gang members or psychotics as YOUR neighbours…yes it’s hard on the genuinly mentally ill but WE cut all provisions for them and this is the result.
Whats to stop people making false allegations to get their neighours evicted?
And what counts as anti social behavious. For some people, even existing can be regarded as anti social. How many people are going to be evicted on trumped up charges, or for flimsy reasons?
None.
Whatever. I’m pretty sure you said that all LGBT’s should be executed, so you can fuck right off. Anyone with Liberty in their name always want to control bodily autonomy.
Is anyone going to show some compassion for the state house tenants who have been terrorised by these ferals? Or don’t they count?