Stop the privatisation of State Housing!

"The wheels are finally falling off the Government's scheme to use charity and Iwi groups as a trojan horse to privatise the $18 billion worth of State Housing assets," says Sue Henry, Spokesperson for the Housing Lobby:

"If it was 'untenable' for the Salvation Army to use existing State Housing stock for the failed 'social housing' experiment, other NGOs and consortiums will never have the capacity as providers, unless they are bankrolled by foreign property development companies, for speculative gain, which still equates to privatisation."

"The public were told prior to the 2014 election there would be no further asset sales."

"There is no electoral mandate for the privatisation of State Housing."

"The Housing Lobby are calling on the Government to scrap the charity housing model and repeal the 2013 Social Housing, Housing Restructuring and Tenancy Matters Act."

"Housing New Zealand must be reinstated as the 'one stop shop' State Housing provider, under the 'public service' model," Sue Henry concluded.

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