Kāinga Ora spends $10,000 per staffer on office renovations

Newshub reports:

Despite thousands of state homes not meeting healthy homes standards, Newshub can reveal Kāinga Ora’s spent millions doing up its own offices.

While Housing Minister Megan Woods says that’s a good thing because it means the agency is growing, National doesn’t agree.

Kāinga Ora’s spent $24,354,759 of taxpayer money over the past four years on itself on office renovation.

They have around 2,300 staff so that is a spend of over $10,000 per staffer just on office renovations.

Easy when it is our money they are spending. I doubt may private sector companies would spend $10,000 per staff on office renovations.

While Kāinga Ora spends millions on itself, it admitted in its last annual report just 21 percent of its homes met the Healthy Homes Standards – meaning 54,000 homes failed.

“And yet housing officials are prioritising upgrades to its corporate offices,” Willis says.

And the Government wonders why things are getting worse despite them spending more money.