State Housing Action Incorporated
15 August 2016
Media release:
Legal challenge to government plans to sell state houses in Tauranga
A High Court legal challenge is being prepared to tackle the government’s plans to sell state houses in Tauranga.
State Housing Action Incorporated was registered as an incorporated society last week and will become the plaintiff in
the planned judicial review.
SHA Inc. is being represented in court by a team led by Tauranga barrister Michael Sharp.
Tauranga housing activist and SHA Inc. secretary Vanessa Kururangi has written a blog about the case.
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.
It’s an unconscionable decision driven by blind ideology.
This legal action has become urgent since the government announced last Friday their preferred buyer of the houses is
the IHC – through their company Accessible Housing.
More details of the legal action will become apparent once papers are filed in court – possibly as early as later this
week.
In the meantime SHA Inc is fundraising to support the action and has launched an appeal. We don’t have money and will be
relying on lots of small donations to get the case through court.
In anticipation anyone reading this appeal can help, our account details are:
Account name: State Housing Action Inc.
Kiwibank account No: 38 9018 0028715 00
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