{"id":9627,"date":"2016-08-17T20:43:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T07:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=9627"},"modified":"2016-08-17T20:43:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T07:43:03","slug":"legal-challenge-to-government-plans-to-sell-state-houses-in-tauranga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=9627","title":{"rendered":"Legal challenge to government plans to sell state houses in Tauranga"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"yiv9252823270MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VanessaK.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9628\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VanessaK.jpg\" alt=\"VanessaK\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VanessaK.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VanessaK-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VanessaK-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VanessaK-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VanessaK-123x70.jpg 123w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VanessaK-570x320.jpg 570w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VanessaK-701x394.jpg 701w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/VanessaK-1067x600.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv9252823270MsoNormal\">A High Court legal challenge is being prepared to tackle the government\u2019s plans to sell state houses in Tauranga.\u00a0State Housing Action Incorporated was registered as an incorporated society last week and will become the plaintiff in the planned judicial review.\u00a0SHA Inc. is being represented in court by a team led by Tauranga barrister Michael Sharp.\u00a0Tauranga housing activist and SHA Inc. secretary Vanessa Kururangi has .<\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv9252823270MsoNormal\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv9252823270MsoNormal\">We are utterly appalled the government intends to pursue the sale of state housing when we have a housing crisis for families on low incomes.\u00a0It\u2019s an unconscionable decision driven by blind ideology.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471372521894_7199\" class=\"yiv9252823270MsoNormal\">This legal action has become urgent since the government announced last Friday their preferred buyer of the houses is the IHC \u2013 through their company Accessible Housing.<\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv9252823270MsoNormal\">More details of the legal action will become apparent once papers are filed in court \u2013 possibly as early as later this week.<\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv9252823270MsoNormal\">In the meantime SHA Inc is fundraising to support the action and has launched an appeal. We don\u2019t have money and will be relying on lots of small donations to get the case through court.<\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv9252823270MsoNormal\">In anticipation anyone reading this appeal can help, our account details are:<\/div>\n<div class=\"yiv9252823270MsoNormal\"><b>Account name: State Housing Action Inc.<\/b><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471372521894_7201\" class=\"yiv9252823270MsoNormal\"><b id=\"yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1471372521894_7200\">Kiwibank account No: 38 9018 0028715 00<\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A High Court legal challenge is being prepared to tackle the government\u2019s plans to sell state houses in Tauranga.\u00a0State Housing Action Incorporated was registered as an incorporated society last week and will become the plaintiff in the planned judicial review.\u00a0SHA Inc. is being represented in court by a team led by Tauranga barrister Michael Sharp.\u00a0Tauranga [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":9628,"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-9627","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\/9627"}],"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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9627"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9631,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627\/revisions\/9631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}