Surprise – another Kainga Ora horror story

Newshub reports:

A building manager in central Auckland alleges some of his Kāinga Ora tenants have assaulted, abused and threatened to stab him. …

Building manager Paul* has lived in his Auckland CBD building for over three years, the exact location of which Newshub has agreed not to publish over fear of retaliation from his tenants.

He is responsible for over 180 apartments and a community of about 300 people. Several of these apartments are tenanted by Kāinga Ora residents, all of whom are single people or couples. There aren’t any families.

Over the past three years, Paul says he and his team have experienced numerous incidents of anti-social behaviour from Kāinga Ora tenants.

“[There are] two very serious issues, one is threatening to kill me – I was threatened to be stabbed – and what makes that particularly concerning is that individual was on the same floor as me and my wife’s absolutely terrified. The other one is the assault – that’s with myself and a younger staff member,” Paul tells Newshub.

Threatening to kill the building manager should see the tenant evicted. But no.

But despite reporting these allegations to the agency, including sending CCTV footage as evidence, he says he’s “pretty much been ignored” by them.

It is very clear that once again Kainga Ora are the worst landlord in NZ. If they were a private sector landlord, the Police would be arresting them as a crime accomplice.

Kāinga Ora says it works collaboratively and professionally with many body corporates and building management teams in the Auckland CBD.

John Tubberty, the agency’s regional director for central Auckland, says they value the relationships they have with management teams and work hard to make sure any issues that arise are addressed and resolved quickly.

He says while there can be points of difference, they want to listen, understand and work together to solve problems.

Note the use of all the buzz words such as collaborate, value, listen, understand etc. But nothing about action.

“Over the past two years, Kāinga Ora has been committed to working with [Paul’s] body corporate and building management. Our responses have included phone calls, face-to-face meetings, email correspondence and direct communication with the body corporate chair,” Tubberty says.

So they’ll answer the phone, and have meetings and send e-mails. But the one thing they won’t do is actually take action against tenants who threaten to kill.

“As part of doing this, we seek to identify the root cause of any customer issues as they arise and tailor our approach in a way that works for each individual and their whanau.”

More buzz words. Still nothing about having minimum standards of behaviour for tenants.

“Often we make progress by working with people and families directly and other specialist agencies in addressing the very different life circumstances people come from and their sometimes quite complex needs.”

Note their entire focus is on the tenants who are doing the terrorising, not on the victims of the resigns of terror.