Re: Scum landlords ripping off our vulnerable

[ChristianKnight]

On Nov 7, 1:40 pm, Richard <r...@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
> Sonn wrote:
> > I took an elderly person who I'm helping find accommodation to look at
> > a flat this week.  It was advertised as a single unit, on a back
> > section, so we couldn't see it very well from the street, and arranged
> > to have a look through.
>
> > The owner was asking $180 per week, and it was a one room hovel, with
> > no kitchen; there was a gas top camping stove (with no gas bottle)
> > parked on the front porch, no kitchen or storage area (illegal) and
> > very little room to move (health & safety).  Inside was a small room,
> > filthy carpet, no separate bedroom area, just a folding screen.  There
> > was a bathroom, with a huge fridge planted smack in the middle, and no
> > laundry area.  Basically this breached several health and safety
> > regulations, as well as building regulations, and the rent was
> > horrendous for what it was.
>
> > I have come across this situation frequently, with owners/land agents
> > asking huge rents for hovels.  Sadly,  people - mostly on benefits -
> > are taking on this type of accommodation, and WINZ are paying for them
> > to live there.  Most of the owners/land agents are asian or indian,
> > who seem to take health and safety, and building regulations for
> > granted, so they can rake in money while abusing the rights of more
> > vulnerable people.  This is also, I believe, pushing up rentals
> > generally, as anyone who wants to live in more than a hovel will be
> > expected to pay above average rent.
>
> > I phoned the local council to discuss this, and was told that I could
> > make a complaint either on Health & Safety, or Building compliance
> > grounds.  I explained that they should want to know about these
> > crooks, and I did not want to make a formal complaint as I really had
> > no involvement, but they should be acting on these crook anyway, as a
> > regulatory obligation.  They said no, it was up to me to make a
> > complaint.
>
> > I have seen so many hovels, while assisting clients to look for
> > accommodation - garages, with a benchtop stove parked in the corner
> > for $200; dark basement with little light, cold and damp, for $190; a
> > flat for $200 with a shared toilet (euw yeuck!) and kitchen sink
> > doubling as hand basin.  Sadly, with the closure of camping grounds
> > around New Zealand, and the rise in snap landlords who have only been
> > in the country a month, this is becoming the norm.  Doesn't anybody
> > care that these third world standards are being supported by
> > vulnerable people who are living there because WINZ will pay the
> > greedy landlords without discretion.
>
> So you were presented with a house, and chose not to live in it. Whats
> the problem other than a bit of wasted time going and looking at the place?- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

But it was not a decent house unfit for humans more fit for animals >
A respectable Government should con centraTE ON kEY ASPECTS OF POVERTY
NOT JUST RACIST mAORI THREATS THAT TERRORISE THEM THEY NEED TO
INVESTIGATE PEOPLE PROFITING FROM POVERTY AND SET MINimum housing
standards and police andf fine that thouroughly.
They need to place big fines on landlords that fall under munimum
housing requirements so big a fine that those cruel evil dispicable
charaqcters are no longer able to look ion that direction to gain a
profit for obviously they are not the kind of people people fit for
caring.
Christ's love