{"id":6253,"date":"2015-07-06T08:29:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T19:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=6253"},"modified":"2015-07-06T10:17:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T21:17:26","slug":"state-housing-fire-sale-to-resolve-the-housing-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=6253","title":{"rendered":"State housing fire sale to resolve the housing crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/avatr.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/avatr.gif\" alt=\"avatr\" width=\"70\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Mana News editor Joe Trinder<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Notsellstatehouses.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4820\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Notsellstatehouses.jpg\" alt=\"Notsellstatehouses\" width=\"865\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Notsellstatehouses.jpg 865w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Notsellstatehouses-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Notsellstatehouses-495x330.jpg 495w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Notsellstatehouses-75x50.jpg 75w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Notsellstatehouses-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Minister of State Services Paula Bennett is rushing a bill through parliament &#8220;Social Housing Reform (Transaction Mandate) Bill&#8221; to allow herself unrestrained powers to sell off Housing New Zealand stocks. This will do nothing to ease the housing crisis the bill is designed to award corporate&#8217;s state housing on the cheap.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5040\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5040\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bennet_sinister.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5040 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bennet_sinister.jpg\" alt=\"SUN0553839998\" width=\"360\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bennet_sinister.jpg 360w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bennet_sinister-300x229.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bennet_sinister-80x60.jpg 80w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bennet_sinister-150x115.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5040\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MP Paula Bennett<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The objectives of the bill are deceptive\u00a0 \u201cthe supply of affordable housing is increased, especially in Auckland.\u201d \u2013what happens to the family that had to be evicted for this state housing to be freed up.<\/p>\n<p>How can government stop building state housing and start selling state housing and seriously believe this will resolve the housing crisis.\u00a0This will only intensify the housing crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Why can\u2019t the housing be transferred to the ownership of the tenants why do banks and corporate&#8217;s need to prosper like pigs at the trough?<\/p>\n<p>Housing New Zealand already has a board of directors why would the minister need to override the board and sell off state homes without consulting the ministry?<\/p>\n<p>This is a blatant attempt to enrich the corporations and property developers that donate heavily to the National party coffers.\u00a0In many situations the State housing tenants have brought the property many times over paying rent over 30 years but the home still belongs to housing New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>This Bill is corruption of the highest order at a time when these Ministers are planning a fire sale of billions of dollars of public assets. Basically it\u2019s the minister offering herself the cheapest streets on the monopoly board when she should go directly to jail.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Monopoly-Jail.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6271\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Monopoly-Jail.png\" alt=\"Monopoly-Jail\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Monopoly-Jail.png 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Monopoly-Jail-123x70.png 123w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Monopoly-Jail-254x141.png 254w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Mana News editor Joe Trinder The Minister of State Services Paula Bennett is rushing a bill through parliament &#8220;Social Housing Reform (Transaction Mandate) Bill&#8221; to allow herself unrestrained powers to sell off Housing New Zealand stocks. This will do nothing to ease the housing crisis the bill is designed to award corporate&#8217;s state housing on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-housing","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6253"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6287,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6253\/revisions\/6287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}