Sallies show how it is done

The Herald reports:

An 85-year-old woman has been kicked out of a social housing village after bullying other tenants and making multiple false accusations against them including that one neighbour was “wiggling and flashing her bottom”.

The Salvation Army New Zealand Trust, turned to the Tenancy Tribunal to terminate the woman’s lease on the grounds of anti-social behaviour – she had been issued with seven 14-day notices to remedy her behaviour between 2019 and 2022, and three anti-social behaviour notices this year.

This shows the difference between a good and a bad landlord.

Kainga Ora has tenants who have literally terrorised their neighbours for years and years and despite hundreds of complaints has done nothing about it.

The Salvation Army has shown that you can set expectations for behaviour, and terminate a lease for bad behaviour – especially if it affects other tenants.

It won’t happen but I’d love to see Kainga Ora’s entire housing stock transferred over to the Salvation Army and other community providers to run.