STOP THE PRESSES: Someone just told Kaianga Ora about this thing called climate change

No. Way.

Concerns many Kāinga Ora homes are built on flood-prone land

More than 10,000 properties owned by the Government’s state housing agency are on flood-prone land and it has plans to build more.

You would think that building State Houses on flood plains was a recipe for disaster, especially when it turns out that the barest minimum requirements are what Kaianga Ora have used…

“Developing in a flood prone area is not a problem per se, in fact what it does is it allows us to design to make sure we mitigate for the flooding impact,” says Kāinga Ora’s general manager of urban development and delivery Mark Fraser.

Māngere housing advocate Jo Latif says some of the houses were lifted off their foundations while families were still inside trying to escape.

Latif is part of a group advocating for Māngere’s state housing residents.

“I’ve heard from Kāinga Ora that they have done the minimum council requirements for their new houses and frankly, you know, in Māngere, we are sick of the bare minimum.”

…is Kaianga Ora Māori for ‘Drowning Tenants’?

Does it fill anyone else with terror that the State Housing Agency is building on floodplains?

Does it fill anyone else with dread that they are putting in the lowest effort required for events that are extreme?

This is the agency who were throwing tenants out onto the street for flawed meth tests, is their, ‘trust us’ really good enough?

Here’s the kicker…

Fraser says Kāinga Ora has been making sure that any decisions it’s made on housing since the middle of last year, with any business case for housing, includes climate resilience.

…fuck me backwards!

Are they telling us, ‘no worries, since last year we’ve been all about climate resilience’????

SINCE LAST YEAR?

WTF?

Have they only just heard about climate change have they?

So from last year climate resilience has been added to their decision making for state housing?

So everything before 2022 hasn’t been built with climate resilience?

Sweet Jesus this has all the ingredients of a cluster fuck beyond their flawed meth testing cluster fuck.

We will see far more flooding and you can already hear Kaianga Ora Executives mouthing their excuses.

There is never any accountability in this country thanks to underfunded public services that stopped giving. fuck decades ago.

 

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