No Evictions by Kāinga Ora After Receiving More Than 6000 Complaints
November 23, 2022
PHOTO: RNZ / Cole Eastham-Farrelly
A private property owner in Whangārei has long endured loud parties at his Kāinga Ora neighbour that often descend into violence.
He’d not noticed any positive change in behaviour when he had complained this year.
“Only over the next day or so when they all stand out there yelling at me for being a nark and for calling their landlords on them, and then they get a bit more threatening and a bit more annoying. It just seems to aggravate the problem more than anything.
“It doesn’t achieve anything we are trying to achieve like either the problem gets moved on or they change their habits.”
Kāinga Ora’s Shannon Gatfield said it was the landlord of last resort for about 200,000 New Zealanders - half of them children.
She said removing tenants from a property was lengthy process and used only when there was no other option.
If you catch wind that Kāinga Ora is moving into your neighborhood, best to get out. This “landlord” is a group of bureaucrats sitting in an office in Wellington. They don’t care about your complaints or your neighborhood. Do you think they build Kāinga Ora properties next to their own houses?