Paula Bennett on Kainga Ora

Paula Bennett writes:

It may be a small percentage of Kāinga Ora tenants that are making other people’s lives hell but those that are should be dealt with swiftly and in the best interest of others.

It is obvious that they should be evicted for the safety of neighbours but they should also be evicted because they don’t respect the property and there are plenty of others who will.

There are more than 25,000 people on the Social Housing waitlist. This is far too many and at another time when we don’t have such a shortage of housing we should have the discussion of how many people the State should provide housing for.

Every gang member who is kept on terrorising their neighbours is blocking someone else from that state house who won’t.

There has to be some form of self-responsibility and consequences for actions. And one of those actions should be eviction – as National said it would do last year.

This was the status quo until Labour changed it in 2017. It was a disastrous experiment.

If you don’t want to be evicted then it is quite simple. Don’t terrorise and threaten your neighbours and treat the home with respect.

A state-funded cheap home is not yours by right and if you are lucky enough to be in one then you should take responsibility for your actions.

It’s not that hard!