Why Kāinga Ora Tenants Should Be Terrified This Election
State tenants face higher rents and the threat of being pushed back into the private market, while landlords pocket a $2.9 billion tax break. Vote like your home depends on it.

State tenants face higher rents and the threat of being pushed back into the private market, while landlords pocket a $2.9 billion tax break. Vote like your home depends on it.

Jobseeker recipients now reapply every six months. MSD can now use automated systems for welfare decisions. Somehow the poorest are always first in line for State experiments.

Nicola Willis says State housing tenants have won Lotto. Funny, because most of them are still waiting for a safe roof and a Government that cares.

The Government calls it fairer housing support. The NZCTU says it is taking money from struggling tenants and handing the advantage to landlords.

Family carers won a path to employment rights in the Supreme Court. Now the Government has introduced a Bill to shut that path down.

National has stopped pretending to be centrist. Six months before Election 2026, the cruelty is out in the open and the target is anyone too exhausted to fight back.

The Government is increasing rents, tightening housing support and criminalising homelessness while ministers claim thousands in housing allowances themselves.

Critics warn the Government’s public sector cuts and welfare changes are punishing vulnerable New Zealanders to fund austerity politics.

After disability carers won in the Supreme Court, the Government’s response is to rewrite the law and strip protections away again.

The Coroner’s report into Malachi Subecz exposes child protection failures and why the Family Court cannot be the default solution.