8 November 2016

Press Release Sue Henry Housing Lobby "$300 million housing charade!"

"Throwing a few hundred million ca$h injection into (private) 'social housing' will never rectify the biggest debacle in housing policy this country has ever witnessed under Bill English and Nick Smith's watch," says Housing Lobby Spokesperson, Sue Henry.

"The $102 million earmarked for (private) 'social housing' providers, should have the plug pulled on it immediately."

"These organisations are playing a very bad role, by becoming willing holding companies while Housing Ministers shed more state housing stock and land, out the back door, by transferral to property development companies."

"How absurd for a Government to pay millions of dollars buying beds and motels and handing 'bags of lollies' to private providers of 'social housing', when around the country, boarded-up, freehold publicly-owned State houses and land remain vacant for years."

"The only way forward is to repeal the Social Housing Reform' legislation, re-establish Housing New Zealand as a 'one stop shop', and reinstate 'social objectives' back into their Statement of Corporate Intent."

"There has never been any public mandate for the privatisation of public State housing."

Sue Henry

Spokesperson Housing Lobby

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