{"id":38,"date":"2014-10-18T00:19:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T00:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=38"},"modified":"2014-10-22T08:01:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T08:01:24","slug":"mana-to-fight-mass-privatisation-of-state-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=38","title":{"rendered":"MANA to fight mass privatisation of state housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Minto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Minto.jpg\" alt=\"Minto\" width=\"82\" height=\"56\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Minto.jpg 82w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Minto-75x50.jpg 75w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Minto-80x56.jpg 80w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Minto-50x35.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 82px) 100vw, 82px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<strong>John Minto<\/strong> Mana vice-president<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/10733993_10201673302313999_5775068151272899262_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-39\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/10733993_10201673302313999_5775068151272899262_n-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"10733993_10201673302313999_5775068151272899262_n\" width=\"424\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/10733993_10201673302313999_5775068151272899262_n-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/10733993_10201673302313999_5775068151272899262_n-495x278.jpg 495w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/10733993_10201673302313999_5775068151272899262_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Announcements over the past 12 hours from the Minister responsible for Housing New Zealand, Bill English, and Minister for Social Housing, Paula Bennett, make clear the government\u2019s intention for the mass privatisation of state housing. This comes during the middle of a housing crisis with over 3000 families in absolutely urgent need of housing. \u201cWhen such families are living three to a house or in garages, cars, vans and cockroach-infested caravans then the government should declare a state housing emergency and begin an urgent state house building programme\u201d, said MANA Movement co-vice President John Minto.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has to be the government rolling up its sleeves because nowhere in the world at any time have property developers built quality, affordable homes for low-income families. The best \u201cthe market\u201d provides is a cardboard shack on the side of the road as happens in many other countries and has already begun in New Zealand\u201d, said Minto. \u201cTransferring state houses to the \u201csocial housing sector\u201d is NOT the answer because it doesn\u2019t increase the housing stock for low-income families.<\/p>\n<p>We refuse to accept the government can wash its hands of responsibility.\u201d \u201cSuccessive Labour and National governments have underfunded state housing for three decades at the same time as pursuing economic policies which have driven more families into poverty and in need of state housing.\u201d \u201cThe mass privatisation of state housing is a government priority. Fighting that policy will be a MANA priority.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0John Minto Mana vice-president Announcements over the past 12 hours from the Minister responsible for Housing New Zealand, Bill English, and Minister for Social Housing, Paula Bennett, make clear the government\u2019s intention for the mass privatisation of state housing. This comes during the middle of a housing crisis with over 3000 families [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,4,1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-housing","category-news","category-policy","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}