$35 million of damages footed by the taxpayer

Stuff reports:

The country’s state housing landlord admits it doesn’t keep records on damage done by tenants to its homes.

And while Kāinga Ora has charged tenants $35.3 million for property damage over the past five years, it can’t say how much has actually been paid back.

How incompetent do you have to be, to not even be able to know how much has actually been paid.

I suspect it is very little. Because it is taxpayer’s money, they have no incentive to collect it, or even monitor it.