More than 550 000 NZers in hardship & National’s response? Social Housing run by corporate detention companies?
A terrible insight into those NZers who are not being looked after by National…
More than half a million Kiwis are experiencing hardship in three or more areas of life and single-parent families are doing things toughest, government research has found.
Superu, a government agency focusing on improving the lives of families and children, released the findings today.
For the first time, the researchers sought to define a measure of “multiple disadvantage” for families, using indicators from the 2014 General Social Survey and input from a reference group with representation from eight government agencies.
The survey only captured adults, rather than the entire New Zealand population, which Superu’s data reflected.
The agency hopes to use this information to figure out which kinds of families are most likely to experience which combination of problems, and recommend adjustments about the provision of social services accordingly.
Anyone experiencing difficulty in three or more of the areas of education, health, income, housing, material well-being, employment, safety and social connectedness, was defined by researchers as having a “multiple disadvantage”.
…news like this makes National’s election campaign of looking after everyone a farce.
So what is the Government’s response to 550 000 NZers living in hardship?
Apart from denying child poverty, apart from underfunding health by $2.3billion so the rich can get tax cuts, apart from ignoring the 41 000 homeless, apart from escalating incarceration, apart from turning a blind eye to our horrific suicide rates, apart from refusing to acknowledge 1600 NZers die each year because of the cold – apart from all that, why the National Party of NZ is helping deliver for all NZers by privatising state housing to the corporation that runs the bloody Manus Island detention camps…
Social housing candidate has links to Manus detention centre
The government is seeking proposals from three preferred groups before deciding which one will be chosen to purchase 2500 houses in the city.
They are all made up of existing housing providers and investment firms and would be required to continue operating them as social housing and not sell them to the private sector.
One consortium is made up of housing provider, Trust House Limited and Broadspectrum New Zealand, a subsidiary of a larger Australian-based business in charge of operating the controversial Manus Island refugee detention centre.
Broadspectrum, along with the Australian government, this month agreed to a $73 million out of court settlement with detainees after they said they were mistreated.
…the fact that the National Party can build their entire election campaign around delivering for all NZers and get away with that bare faced lie is testament to the gutless mainstream media we have mixed with guilty middle class property investor voters who are desperate to pretend their gain hasn’t been at anyone else’s expense.
This is the state of denial this country now lives in.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
A convicted corporate criminal and human rights abuser, is in the running to take possession of 2,500 ex-state houses.
Corporate Welfare, is being taken to strange and awful new levels.
If someone had suggested that such a thing was even possible even ten years ago, they would have been laughed at.
“middle class property investor “..the sad truth of the matter is that traditional ‘homeowners’ have nearly all been turned into ‘property investors’ thanks to our system of greed, and love of ‘winners and losers’.
Lets face it, back in the late 70s, when that first Ponsonby villa was tarted up and had a wall knocked out, and some teacher realised they had just made a bundle… it was all over for housing equality.
And it was no home owners ‘fault’.
Its an economy and a tax regime that encouraged such things.
Thanks neo liberalism, thanks stagnant wages, and thanks to upwardly mobile baby boomers who have done a nice job of pulling up the ladder.
Genocide perpetrated by an evil bunch of “kiwi public servants’ against all us kiwis.
Having any company that has been involved with the shameful goings on at Manus Island taking over state homes is the bottom of the barrel.
It’s utterly foul.
National must have a terrible opinion of themselves if they think letting such a company run state housing is going to be better for NZers than what they can do.
“we lead a government delivering for all New Zealanders”??? WTF???
We’re seeing entire families turfed out onto the streets in the middle of winter and Bill English is indulging in masterbatory political fantasies???
If this is what New Zealanders want, just rep-elect National and Act . They’ll get more homelessness, poverty, and social dislocation than they bargained for.
1 million people who voted for the Nats = fucked in the head.