Labour govt 2020-23

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Woke policing meets Labour's housing catastrophe -

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300...nga-ora-to-act

Feilding women terrorised by neighbour plead for police and Kāinga Ora to act
George Heagney
05:00, Feb 19 2022

Two Manawatū women feel imprisoned in their own homes after being terrorised by a neighbour and want the police and Kāinga Ora to act.

Caroline Hay and Sherryl Jones live in Kāinga Ora housing in Feilding and share a driveway with a man, who is also in Kāinga Ora housing.
They say the man has been terrorising them, threatening them and damaging their property, and both the police or Kāinga Ora told them there is nothing they can do. They want him to be evicted.
“I’m at my wits’ end,” Jones said. “What has to happen before [Kāinga Ora] do something? Does he have to kill us or maim us?”
The man is due to appear in the Palmerston North District Court at the end of next month. Stuff has chosen not to name him.
She said the problems started when the man came to Hay’s house in July threatening to kill her and smashing her property with an iron bar until police took him away.
Since that incident the man’s house had been empty, but he was still the tenant, she said.
No-one was home when Stuff visited.

She said the man appeared at her house last Friday, having left the mental health ward at Palmerston North Hospital.
Hay told him to leave, which he did, and the police unsuccessfully searched for him. But now she is afraid of leaving her house.
Jones said she had been racially abused by the man, had one of her car tyres slashed, her garage damaged, and the man pulled her brother out of a car in the driveway and started attacking him.
They had previously been on good terms, but Jones believed the man blamed her for his cat going missing.
“He came over and abused me, called me a black so-and-so in front of my granddaughter. He just kept on going. I’ve reported him to Kāinga Ora so many times that I get frustrated.”
Hay said she asked police to do something, but they told her there was nothing they could do.
“He doesn't go back to court until March. We are in prison in our own home and he's walking free.”
Hay, who lives with her autistic adult son, said the man was tormenting them.
“He’s so unpredictable. We’re both scared and petrified.”

Kāinga Ora’s Taranaki, Manawatū and Horowhenua regional director Graeme Broderick said it was a complex situation and he could not go into specifics without privacy waivers from all parties.
“We are working closely with our customers and closely alongside other agencies to ensure we come to a solution that best supports everyone involved.”
He said Kāinga Ora was committed to maintaining tenancies where possible and achieving “positive outcomes” for tenants and the community.
New provisions in the Residential Tenancies Act will be used for “the most severe and persistent disruptive behaviour” where Kāinga Ora can give tenants a warning for “serious disruptive behaviour”.
If a tenant receives three warnings within 90 days, Kāinga Ora can apply to the Tenancy Tribunal to end the tenancy.
Broderick said they did not want to make people homeless so would offer alternative housing and each case would be managed by Kāinga Ora.

MidCentral District Health Board’s operations lead for acute and specialist mental health Jon Gullidge said people admitted to the mental health ward under the Mental Health Act were able to leave if agreed to with staff, but those not admitted under the act could leave more freely.
People leaving the ward were assessed.

“Where anyone leaves the ward without leave or overstays their leave, we work with their next of kin and NZ Police to resolve this.”
A police media spokeswoman said due to privacy reasons, she could not respond to queries about whether a person was under investigation.

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Notice the ‘privacy’ excuses?

That is wheeled out on a regular basis now whenever the police, MOH or any government agency have screwed up or done nothing to resolve a problem screaming for attention & resolution.

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Woke policing meets Labour's housing catastrophe -
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What's the alternative being offered though.

Make interest deductible again.
Allow in foreign investors back in.

keen to hear solutions instead of a list of complaints.

[moka]

I see the Herald headlines around the anti media sentiment down in Wellington. I wonder if they ever actually consider their part in the last few years and that perhaps a large part of the country has not only lost faith in the government but very much lost faith in an unbiased media. I do see things slowly changing in what they now report, either the govt money is running out or they can see a tide change across the country

I completely agree that the media has to look at the part they have played. The media have lots of opinion pieces creating a tribal “them and us” mentality rather than balanced news articles. They have been a big player in the creating of division between different groups in NZ. So, I don’t find it surprising that those who have been subjected to name-calling and hostility such as anti-vaxxers are using the same tactics towards the news media.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-...7NA2A6ZWAKSAM/

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What's the alternative being offered though.

Make interest deductible again.
Allow in foreign investors back in.

keen to hear solutions instead of a list of complaints.

What has your reply got to do with the woke policing which results in 2 women being terrorised in their home?

Paid Labour shill & pathological liar - you are such a typical Cindy cloned BS artist.

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What has your reply got to do with the woke policing which results in 2 women being terrorised in their home?

Paid Labour shill & pathological liar - you are such a typical Cindy cloned BS artist.

What has your post got to do with a potential solution to the international housing crisis?

[Logen Ninefingers]

I completely agree that the media has to look at the part they have played. The media have lots of opinion pieces creating a tribal “them and us” mentality rather than balanced news articles. They have been a big player in the creating of division between different groups in NZ. So, I don’t find it surprising that those who have been subjected to name-calling and hostility such as anti-vaxxers are using the same tactics towards the news media.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-...7NA2A6ZWAKSAM/

There are just so many young woke activist journalists these days, all of them with stern 'I'm going to make a difference' looks on their faces & zero real world experience.

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What has your post got to do with a potential solution to the international housing crisis?

There is no international housing crisis - there is only NZ housing catastrophe.

Your deflection & BS do not work here so don’t even try.

Take it to the beneficiaries who Cindy is breeding by the tens of thousands every week.

[ynot]

There are just so many young woke activist journalists these days, all of them with stern 'I'm going to make a difference' looks on their faces & zero real world experience.

No doubt bread in woke university's. Where all this rot began.

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No doubt bread in woke university's. Where all this rot began.

Book burning is much more wholesome isn't it.