Open letter to State Tenant
Dear Olivia Maana
Hey mate, really sad to hear about your Mum dying – I’m sure the stress of her loss compounded by being evicted can’t be a good time right now. I hear that you had a meeting with Housing NZ last night and you are hopeful that they may allow you to stay in the State house that has been in you in your family for the last 32 years. I just wanted to send you a letter to explain why you might end up getting shafted though, because I think you deserve the truth.
The truth is that even though your family have been there for 32 years and you have built up a strong community connection, sadly your state house is on some prime real estate and Housing NZ has some designs on “developing” the site in the “future” and sell it off, because social cohesion and interaction is left to public transport these days and gentrification of previously working class areas mean poor people like you have to be put is some ghetto somewhere else. I know Housing NZ have said they have another family to move in there, but they also didn’t rule out selling the place once you’re on your arse, so you’re kinda screwed because they can use that argument right up until you’re moved onto the curb and the media attention has ended, and you can’t rely on compassion from Chris Carter right now, because he’s already been branded with the ‘PC’ tag at a time when Labour is terrified of being seen to help brown people.
If I had my way, beneficiaries would be allowed a no interest rent to buy option so that families like yours can create communities safe in the knowledge you won’t be shipped out to the ghetto once the land beneath your state house gets gentrified. But I don’t get a say until the next election.
Sorry about losing your home, hope they see some compassion and change their minds.
Tumeke!
Family facing eviction from state house 'inherited' after mother dies
A family who "inherited" their mother's state house after she died recently will be evicted by police if they haven't moved out by tomorrow, Housing New Zealand says.
Kopu Maana died last month and her 19-year-old daughter Olivia Maana wants to continue living in the state house in Panmure.
Housing New Zealand said last night that the family had been sent a notice warning them they had to leave by Friday.
"Our hope is they will leave before then ... but if not the police will be involved," Housing New Zealand spokeswoman Kathryn O'Sullivan said.
posted by Bomber @ 2:23 pm
31 comments
31 Comments:
I soon as I saw this story in the Herald online I knew you would post it Bomber, and I knew what your response would be.
The fact that the family has been there for 32 years is an indictment in itself. In 32 years they were unable to raise themselves up enough to buy or rent a house at market rates. Or maybe the situation was so cushy they didn't need to bother? Look at the picture 'Help Save Our Home'- They clearly think they own the house- well guess what? They don't. It's sad that the mother died, but it's time for the 19 yr old daughter and her own daughter to find a place of their own or move into a smaller State house. Two teenage girls and a baby do not need a big State House. It is not their house, it never was, and it is up to the relevant authorites to allocate this resource to whoever needs it the most.
Fat chance of that Peter...can you ever see this 'mother' doing anything with her life apart from breeding kids to multiple fathers? I doubt it
Where's your compassion? Everyone has the right to a good life, and it is up to the government to give it. They have lived in the house for a long time. they have spiritual attachments to the land. Let's not forget they are tangata whenua who are guaranteed taonga under the Treaty! The government should reach out a helping hand. they have only just buried their kuia. Kia Kaha Maana whanau!
Allowing these lay about, losers to live subsidised for 32 year was enabling them to create a dynasty of dependence.
How do you explain to people like this the world does not own them a living after 32 years no wonder they can’t get it. What sort of mentality do people have where they believe they are entitled to things without paying for them. Have these people made any effort to work, save and sacrifice to provide a secure home for themselves or do they just sit and demand even more.
Some people have enough brains and commitment to move on, these hopeless cases did not. Time for a reality check, get of your backsides and provide for yourselves – don’t breed children until you can provide a home for them.
Land values change, its called reality. Maybe Bomber will help them out and buy a house next door to him and let them live in it indefinitely at a heavily subsidised rent.
If you really want to find compassion look at the ‘working poor’, they are the people who have it the hardest but in my experience they rarely whine about it like beneficiaries, they just work and try harder, they know the only person who can or should help them is themselves.
Many people work hard, skimp and save all their lives to pay a mortgage and still lose their home after decades but nobody seems to worry about them.
"Everyone has the right to a good life, and it is up to the government to give it."
WHAT????
Just heard the she is pregnant with another child! What a lifestyle eh!
While the rest of us go out to work she lies on her back!
Comments Bomber!
She is certainly one of life's winners...
what a generous lot you are. some real empathically challenged people. it was interesting to see the article on the news. prime waterfront realestate. carter, i see through you and yours.
Evicted? I read somewhere she was offered a two bedroom house, but she refused that. Not big enough for all the whanau staying there for free? Well, not for "free" - staying there on MY hard earned tax dollars. Probably like the Kahuis, heaps of bludgers staying there with thousands of dole dollars coming into the house. Why would she give that up?
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Look at all the hate mongers – Bomber you said you had some right wing fuckwits on this site, but I had no idea how ‘white’ it would be. And can some of you compassionate souls tell me how we integrate class in society? Or are you all in favour of slums and ghettos? Of course Housing NZ is kicking these people out to sell the land, it is part of the gentrification process the middle class gain after pushing out the working class, what I love though is how you all seem to wrap it up in some ‘work hard ethic’ regardless of the stress moving a family out of a plush suburb may cause. State Housing should be a means for the working class to recapitalize themselves through rent to buy options, but that would led to a little give from citizens to help out their fellow man, but I see the selfishness of the right is alive and well. Isn’t it amazing that for only 4million people we have such fear and anger?
'fear and anger' turn it up! More like frustrated and disappointed. 32 years in a state house, plus whatever other benefits they may have been given, were the helping hand from the tax payers of NZ, including us right wing idiots.
Reaper...she doesn't exactly sound like she 'working' on anything apart from breeding and taking handouts at the moment...might have more sympathy for her if she actually sought employment... From memory being 'working class' actually involved some 'work' last time I checked.
As has been pointed out in the paper time and again, these people have been offered alternative housing more suited to their needs. There are also people who have been on the waiting list for a long time who need to have a house this size. That's why they're getting kicked out!
State Housing is an absolute necessity in this country to help people who are not in a position to pay ridiculous market rate rentals or high interest mortgages. However, when people make comments like "Everyone has the right to a good life, and it is up to the government to give it." you do have to wonder where that mentality fits in with working hard, getting a good education (which is sort of but not quite free...) and so on. Yes, the government should (and does) help people in need but we all need to take some responsibility for ourselves as well and not expect everything to be handed to us on a plate.
NS
Many people cannot live in the house or area where they were brought up.
Few young people starting out can afford to buy into 'middle class' areas or afford the type of house it may have taken their parents 32 years to work up to.
That’s one of the reasons so many young people these days stay living at home for so long, they can't cope with having to move out of their comfort zone. They expect to start off at the same standard of living their parents have worked a lifetime to achieve.
Sensible parents chuck them out, allow them to rough it for a while and teach them you have to start at the bottom work hard, save and sacrifice to move up.
Ahhhh young people today ………..
Come on if you keep giving losers like this everything they want and ask them to do nothing to earn where do they end up, go back in a couple of years she will have banged out a couple more brats with god knows who will grow up to think life is about getting everything you need from WINZ.
I have a friend whose family used to live in Queen Street, those homes have not existed for decades. I think from time to time he wonders what that land would be worth today – he’s done OK though, not all Maoris are lay abouts.
The world moves on losers don’t, someone need to get this hopeless case (what example is she to her children) to get out of her lazy comfort zone. The well meaning are part of the problem they need to top enabling this useless lifestyle, or maybe they need them to – just like Mother Teresa needed the poor.
How many stories of old folk who worked hard to own their own house, lived in it for decades then had to get out because of high rates would it take to convince the PC soft-brains that this irresponsible social leech deserves no sympathy?
I have a fair few.
Hey where did Raoul's posts go?
boo hoo, sentiments. if you cant afford your own home then fuck up and put up with wherever you are sent. if you dont like it rent a house or hey, even buy one.
its so good to see the majority of these comments show feelings of disgrace about the situation - while the rest of us pay rent and save hard to by a house these neanderthals expect everything to be handed to them on a silver platter and then have the audacity to moan about what theyve been given!!!! Makes me sick!!!
I was given a state house when my son was little and I was on the DPB through no fault of my own ... ie dad pissed off. I believe kids should have their mums full time for the first five formative years of their lives.
Since then I have worked hard at improving my work skills and have moved on to the point that I own my own home. In the first five years of working after being on the DPB I had repaid in taxes everything I had been paid in DPB and Housing Corp subsidies, I feel vindicated in my decision to be a full time mum for those first five years of my son's life.
We have the closest relationship I could imagine and I am eternally greatful for that opportunity.
Anyway, getting to the point ... the government was there when I needed support, both financial and housing wise. BUT I knew it was my responsibility then and now to look after myself and my whanau. I did and I have and I've repaid what I consider to be a loan over that time.
This is how the welfare state 'should' work I reckon
Kia ora Peter.
NS (aka Anon)
Well done Anon...you are an example that others should follow.
Hey Huia, yes it is her right to do with her body as she wishes ... but it's NOT her right to take and take and take and take.
She needs to learn responsibility and the fact that we're not all here to look after her. She is here to look after her kids. She needs to learn the skills to do that. Let's look at what we can do to teaching her some independence and skills to be a good mum.
What do you reckon?
NS
hey huia, sure she can be a slag lying around on her back all day and yes the government will keep paying for them. but no, she has no claim at all to that house simply because of "spiritual ties"..this is the real world huia, not the days of flax skirts and living in huts. it is a businaa world and most people understand the concept of 'find a job, save money, get married and have kids, and provide a good life for them'...where does the government come into that line of thinking?? oh yes, taking my tax dollar and spending it on a lay about slag like this.
Bomber.
I assume you advocate interest free loans so hard working people who pay market rents can buy houses too.
Question for Olivia Maana.
How many times in 32 years has your family:
Painted the house?
Cleaned out the gutters?
Mowed the lawns?
She has one kid and another on the way.
Where the fuck are the father/s?
easy answer: the fathers are locked up.
Interesting - Race is brought into the equation by people defending these people.
If you have no arguement - play the race card.
Everyone else on this thread - please keep working hard we need alot more taxes to support the 100,000's like this all round the country.
I fairly sure these two girls and assorted family will be living at Bombers house by know. I mean Bomber 'cares' right?
Is Bomber a god follower - that would sort of explain some of his arrogance and conceit I suppose.
He sits on a world vision committee, I have met the professional committee member they are almost as bad as the professional student. He must support them, after all Bomber has principles so he would never be associated with something he did not totally admire and believe in.
Dear oh dear ...... as if starving isn't bad enough you have to put up with happy clappies as well - I would rather die quickly with a bayonet in my guts than the slow death from them.
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Anon - get over yourself!
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