Worst landlord chapter 12,765
The Herald reports:
A state housing tenant who endured years of intimidation from an unruly neighbour’s wild parties with blaring music, loud yelling, trespassing and people urinating on her fence has been awarded thousands in compensation.
The Tenancy Tribunal recently ruled Kāinga Ora–Homes and Communities must pay the Auckland tenant $3000 for ongoing breaches of her quiet enjoyment of her premises. It’s the second time in just over a year the government agency has been directed to pay damages to the same tenant.
So Kainga Ora have already been fined for being an awful landlord, but even after that they just carried on, and now have got fined again. The problem is they don’t pay the fine – we effectively do as taxpayers.
I have a proposal – let’s transfer the entire state housing stock to say the Salvation Army. I’d trust them far more to be humane decent landlords.
Kāinga Ora claimed, at the time, it was in the process of relocating the troublesome neighbour but more than a year later the behaviour continued unabated.
A year ago they claimed they were moving them, but they didn’t.
Jones said the unruly neighbour had now agreed to voluntarily relocate, for a third time after reneging on two previous occasions.
It shouldn’t be voluntary.
“A suitable home has now been found for the neighbour and she will be moving shortly.”
Pity the new neighbours. The solution isn’t to move the troublemaker. It is to tell them that if they act like an arseh**e then they will be evicted.