"Stop the privatisation of State Housing!"

"The social housing experiment was never going to deliver anything to Stare housing tenants, other than transience, " says Housing Lobby Spokesperson, Sue Henry.

"Social housing is nothing more than a backdoor mechanism to privatise massive tracts of State Housing land, and drive up rents and rates through increased property values."

"The intent was clearly evident in the NZ Herald 'Infrastructure' liftout, pg D6, headed 'A place to call home,' 19 August 2014.

"In this article, in several paragraphs, it makes reference to using Housing NZ in areas such as Tamaki to leverage up the value of the land.

'However, perhaps the greatest financial benefit of such initiatives is that open market sales can leverage high land values, while enabling some of the surrounding support services to be wrapped around the more dependent community.'

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"This is precisely what the property development company and Housing NZ have done (from the corner of Eastview Rd / Castledine Crescent Glen Innes, Former State houses were removed and their replacements have transformed into properties over-valued at between $700,000 to $835,000 in a very short time frame."

"If this is not scandalous enough, the Tamaki area is going to endure some of the biggest rate rises in the Auckland region."

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"Other big jumps occurred in Pt England (62 per cent), New Windsor (58 per cent), Glen Innes (55 per cent) and Mangere Bridge (53 per cent)."

"The responsibility for this lies squarely at the feet of National Minister of Housing Nick Smith, and the property development company by using Housing NZ properties to effectively set the benchmark, by falsely over-inflating property values in a predominantly State Housing / low income area."

"We want the sale of our State Housing public asset, for which there was no electoral mandate, to cease forthwith."

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