Social Housing Minister can’t tell us where all the kids he kicked out are

Well, well, well.

What do we have here?

Minister not seeking answers over where kids went after emergency motels

Social Housing Minister Tama Potaka isn’t concerned that there is no information about what’s happened to one in five children who have left emergency housing.

Potaka was celebrating earlier in August, publicising the milestone of 1000 tamariki leaving emergency housing. He said it was a great achievement that those children were “no longer growing up in motels”.

But Stuff revealed he did not know what kind of housing those children were going to be growing up in, after leaving emergency housing.

This is a Government of deception and lies.

When this clown claimed he had made 1000 kids magically disappear I wrote:

This Government excels at camouflaging social carnage and selling that shit sandwich to us as a Parisian Pastry.

They moved the Child Stats up to accommodate for their borrowed Tax Cuts and had the balls to describe lifting the poverty stats by 17 000 was because it was ‘achievable‘

They manufactured a crisis by purposely underfunding Public Health and then overthrew the old Board to put in place a Chainsaw.

And now we have Associate Minister of Housing Tama Potaka claiming to have magically waved his Homeless Children Wand and magically 1000 children aren’t in emergency housing.

Really?

1000 kids hu?

In a month?

Ok Sportsfan, where are they?

He doesn’t know.

He. Doesn’t. Know.

No one believes these numbers, surely the more likely explanation for this sudden drop is that National tightened the eligibility rules and thus dumped a whole lot of people into a void of homelessness…

Last week, Murray told RNZ people in emergency housing had reported they were living in fear of eviction because of anticipated ‘tough’ new rules for people using the service.

While the Community Law organisation said it had advised the Ministry of Social Development to expect an increase homelessness if new rules were introduced which it believed were vulnerable to being used subjectively.

Earlier figures showed that about 4300 people – half of whom were children – were in emergency housing in June, with much of that in motels, but within the month grants for emergency housing took a sudden drop by $7 million.

“Make it harder for people to get into emergency housing – where are they going to go? They’re certainly not going to the houses that the government are building, because the government put a stop to it.

“They’re either going to go into cars, which was why emergency housing was created in the first place, or they’re going to go and stay with family in overcrowded conditions.

“They’ll be able to reach that 75 percent because they’re not letting people in. It’s unhealthy and unsafe, the only real honest way to reduce demand is by funding social housing.”

More questions needed to be asked about where people do go instead, McAnulty said.

This is like Chris Bishop crowing how many Kāinga Ora state tenants he had kicked out but then couldn’t tell anyone where they had gone.

All National are doing is pushing up the homelessness and desperation out there during a cost of living crisis.

So this is social policy now is it?

Draconian eligibility welfare changes that then make the statistics look good but don’t actually explain the social carnage this policy is creating in our Communities, other than building a Mega Prison for the wave of poverty crime about to hit NZ as this Government throws 50 000 people off Welfare as the Reserve Bank Governor is crashing the economy and spiking unemployment which is hurting young Māori the worst.

Meanwhile Big Tobacco, Trans National Mining and the Real Estate Pimps all get juicy tax loop holes funded by the poorest amongst us.

That is the insult to injury of this appalling social policy.

If you are not angry, you are not paying attention.