Public Housing Rent Hikes Slammed By Advocates
The Government calls it fairness. Tenants will call it less food, less power and less fuel while landlords pocket the subsidy.
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Budget 2026 Child Poverty Failure: CPAG
The Government lowered its child poverty bar and Budget 2026 still cannot clear it. Now public housing families are being asked to pay more.
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You have more chance of winning lotto than getting a state house or any help from this Government
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.
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Homes turned into rules – After criminalising the homeless they created, National now comes for state tenants
The Government is increasing rents, tightening housing support and criminalising homelessness while ministers claim thousands in housing allowances themselves.
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Greens Push Housing Protection for State Care Youth
The Greens say young people leaving state care should never be abandoned into homelessness while emergency housing systems collapse around them.
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Greens Slam National Public Housing Reforms
The Greens say National is balancing its Budget on the backs of public housing tenants, beneficiaries and disabled New Zealanders.
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Labour Slams National’s Social Housing Cuts
Labour says National is forcing vulnerable social housing tenants to pay for Budget savings through higher rents and reduced support.
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What would Jesus do? Criminalising homelessness after causing the homelessness is an obscenity
After cutting housing and social support, the Government now wants police powers to move on and punish the homeless its own policies helped create.
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Kāinga Ora is now a sad joke looking for a punchline
Kāinga Ora is being accused of abandoning its public housing purpose as developments are scrapped, properties sold off and homelessness deepens.
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Greens Slam Luxon Homelessness Crackdown
The Greens say Luxon is turning homelessness into a policing issue after policies they argue pushed more people onto the streets.
