John Minto

The government’s intention to sell up to 2,500 state houses in Christchurch can expect to be met with a vigorous community campaign to stop the sales.

The so-called “defence industry” with their war-mongering expo on at the same time is an affront to all of humanity. Their profiteering from human misery, death and destruction makes them arguably the most depraved human beings of all.

P is a huge concern in low-income areas and has been for a long time. But it was only when middle-class kids were effected that we saw action.

Last month SHA Inc. filed papers for a judicial review because we can see no way the Minister of State Housing Bill English or Social Housing Minister Paula Bennet can justify the sale in terms of the statutory objectives of the government’s so-called State Housing Reform Programme.

We didn’t win the mayoralty but we made great progress on the major issue of asset sales and we think we have pushed the incoming council to take a stronger stand on each of the big issues we raised during the campaign.