If Kāinga Ora is Moving In to Your Neighborhood, Get Out
November 9, 2022
PHOTO: RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly
An Auckland homeowner who says she was advised to sell up and move out to get away from unruly Kāinga Ora neighbours has taken a complaint to the Ombudsman.
After enduring five years of illegal drag racing, loud parties and street fighting, the woman said she was horrified when a Kāinga Ora representative suggested she move because there was little the housing agency could do to help her.
Kāinga Ora denies its staff advised her to move.
The woman, who RNZ has agreed not to identify, said problems began shortly after her husband and two young children moved into their new home in 2017.
Loud parties at three neighbouring properties would regularly burst into massive brawls.
One such fight spread right across the road.
“There were about 30 people having a proper full-out brawl outside [our place] and then a gang member turned up with a machete and parked loosely in the middle of the road.