Cracking down on poorest state tenants will generate homelessness – this is what we are now
‘Not clear exactly’ where evicted Kāinga Ora tenants will go, CEO says
Kāinga Ora says it’s cracking-down on rent debt but doesn’t know where evicted tenants who don’t engage in repayment plans will go.
The housing agency was to set a 12-week limit on how much rent debt a tenant could accumulate, but for now it would write-off about half of what it was owed in an effort to manage rent debt.
No idea where the poorest renters will go if the State throws them out onto the street.
Wow.
400 000 on welfare.
1 in 4 children going hungry.
Violence against children is rising.
Homelessness is rising.
Inequality is rising.
40% of communities have unaffordable rents.
Unemployment at 5.1% impacts Māori at 9.7% and Pacifica at 10.7%
National are pushing 350,000 jobseekers to find work when there is no work because you collapsed the economy!
There are less than 11,000 jobs on Trademe and less than 5000 on Seek and National are demanding new sanctions against beneficiaries after sacking 9520 public sector workers!
And National turn their attention to throwing the poorest renters out with no idea where they will go while Bishop slashes public house building using a plan he cooked up with Bill English via text message…
Selling off public housing in nice suburbs to pay for shitty housing in poor suburbs isn’t a public housing solution, it’s a joke.
He’s making Public Housing homeless!
Bernard Hickey is scathing…
Govt to sell billions of dollars worth of state housing land
Bishop stripping Kāinga Ora back to being landlord of stagnant stock of 78,000 state homes; Govt to sell around 900 homes per year in leafier areas to fund renewals & eyes sale of bare land blocks
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- Housing Minister Chris Bishop yesterday announced Kāinga Ora would be stripped of its ‘non-core’ activities of developing new land, managing First Home loans and KiwiSaver withdrawals and consenting its own projects;
- Bishop detailed plans to add a net 145 new homes this year before capping the state housing stock at 78,000 for the next 30 years, with renewal and renovations of an already-tired housing stock paid for by land and home sales in leafier suburbs;
- He said around 800 state homes on land in suburbs such as Remuera would be sold to deveopers in the current year, with ongoing sales in the years to come of around 900, with the potential to also sell bare land bought previously for redevelopment;
- The combined proceeds from land sales would amount to billions per year and would allow Kāinga Ora to generate ‘sustained cash surpluses’ from the 2027/28 fiscal year, which would allow borrowing to stop and dividend payments to resume;
- Cabinet decided to cut around 1,000 jobs from Kāinga Ora to save $1.4 billion over four years, including by demolishing surplus homes rather than transporting them to iwi, cutting maintenance spending by $50 million a year and reducing the size and quality of new homes away from the Homestar Six rating; and,
- Stats NZ reported yesterday building consents fell 9.8% to 33,600 in calendar 2024 after the Government suspended Kāinga Ora’s new building work and high interest rates quashed private sector demand, leading to collapses of building firms and the loss of 13,000 jobs in construction last year.
We are witnessing a class war but don’t have the political vocabulary to describe it in a country blinded by its egalitarian pretensions.
Bishop has a track record of saying one thing and then being unable to back it up.
He claimed a renters rights group loved his plan to allow Landlords to throw you out onto the street but then refused to give anyone the name of that organisation.
He claimed he understood the pain of renters because he was a renter, when asked if he was renting from family, he said no, only for it to turn out he was renting it from his in-laws and he didn’t consider them technically ‘family’.
He has this habit of lying to deflect criticism even when the lies can be easily discovered.
By attacking Kianga Ora, he is manufacturing a housing crisis for the benefit of landlords!
National don’t have money for new Public Housing but they do have $3b for landlords!
This is what we are now, this is who we is.
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The government is doing a terrible job stopping public sector extravagance (see TPU Jonesie awards) so they are focusing on the poor instead.
Trevor again ‘The children of these bad people need to be removed until their parents get their lives sorted’
Because of this nation’s splendid record of looking after children in state care?
‘2024 Recent reports by the Chief Ombudsman, the Independent Children’s Monitor, and the Auditor General have detailed the grim state of affairs for children and whānau in Oranga Tamariki (Ministry for Children) care.
The ombudsman called for “change on a scale rarely required of a government agency” and said Oranga Tamariki has lost the public’s trust.
He highlighted the story of a young person who spent years in a secure “care and protection” residence. He also acknowledged the harmful effects of residential care on young people.’
Care and protection residences provide a secure living environment for children aged 12 to 16, when it’s considered unsafe for them to live at home or in their community. The ombudsman said these sorts of facilities should only be used as a last resort for the shortest time possible.
But care and protection residences are increasingly being used as a default solution for young people with the most complex needs. What needs to change to ensure they become a therapeutic safe space for children in need, rather than a dumping ground for “bad kids”?
Report by Victoria University Researchers Jennifer Montgomery and Clive Aspin
This is just ONE of the reports into state care of Children during 2024 which states taking children away from parents and putting them into state care is a massive, comprehensive failure.
You must be living in a cave somewhere in the Southern Alps to have missed it (though I appreciate you have the anti-intellectualism and cultivated ignorance of a true Tory).
Are you proposing a different model of state care that is more compassionate? Or do you just want to continue a system that provides broken individuals for you to sneer at?
Is your answer to every social problem ” it is all the fault of the Labour Government.’ ?
Trevor everyone has the right to be stupid but you really abuse the privilege.
No child is born bad but it is foolish to think all parents are good and are the best people to bring up their children.
Of course the institutions used should be of a high standard. and should be a last resort .Most families have relatives that could take in the children to give the parents the opportunity to sort themselves out . In Chch there are volunteers helping families to budget and cook simple meals . Children are often the catalyst to changing the parents attitude but it needs to be brought into the open not hiddened and pretending there is no problem.
Most state tenants pay their rent and act as good tenants and neighbors. Why put up with none payers who are often not good neighbors either. The children of these bad people need to be removed until their parents get their lives sorted . Labour’s philosophy of kindness gave bad people a free pass to abuse neighbors and not serve any consequences. I believe there were thousands of complaints but only 3 removals .
Yeah with the blessing from Zelda you and Jonzie could organise building a series of gas chambers with trucking lanes right to the oven doors, exterminate all of them eh, problem solved eh!
You are an inhuman ignorant racist fascist cunt Trev
Incidentally, why has noone in the controlled media asked what happens to tenants of the state houses the current neoliberal traitor regime and the previous neoliberal traitor regime sell off?
Surely they must be provided with state housing at least as close to their jobs by public transport, in the same school zone for their kids, right?
(lol we all know this wasn’t happening under the extreme neoliberal Hipkins and certainly isn’t now)