Kainga Ora screwing the neighbours – again!

One News reports:

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.

They are the worst landlords in New Zealand – terrible for tenants and terrible for neighbours.

She estimated she and her husband had called noise control more than 50 times and contacted police about 30 times since 2017.

Earlier this year, police told her they were Kāinga Ora properties and to seek help from the agency.

The woman said an agency representative told her it was difficult to move the tenants.

Don’t move them. Evict them. It’s what happened before Labour took office. Bad behaviour should have consequences.

“She said ‘we can’t move them. It’s really hard – where are we going to move them? It’s just moving the problem somewhere else.

“‘And, you know, it’s just kinda how it is. We don’t have a lot of places to put these people and we’ll just try and get them to sort it out.

“‘It’s the government policy which makes it just about impossible for us to move difficult tenants’.”

The woman said a Kāinga Ora staff member rubbed salt in the wound – suggesting she move out.

“She kinda said to me ‘why don’t you move?’, and I said ‘because I own my bloody house that’s why and why the bleeding heck would I move, I’m not the one causing trouble’.”

The sad thing is this damages the reputation of all state house tenants – the vast majority of whom are great law abiding tenants.

Ten years ago I’d happily live in an area with state houses, as the then Housing NZ would require good behaviour from tenants. Now is it any surprise there is huge hostility to new developments when existing home owners realise that Kainga Ora will do nothing.