Stop selling our state houses – Protest Hikoi to parliament – Tuesday 13th October
SHAN (State Housing Action Network) is organising a protest hikoi to parliament to demand National MPs and their allies
stop the sale of state houses.
Groups of state house tenants and supporters will come from all over the country to converge on parliament on Tuesday
13th October (the first sitting day of parliament after the holiday recess)
“We are appalled that in the middle of a housing crisis for low-income tenants and families the government is trying to
sell state houses to the private sector.”
“Nowhere in the world has the private sector ever provided quality, affordable housing for all tenants and families on
low incomes who need them. It is only ever done by the state which has the resources and the capacity to do so.”
“The government has already transferred 2,800 state houses in Tamaki to the government-owned Tamaki Redevelopment
Company where shareholding ministers are working to half the number of state houses in the first stage of redevelopment
in northern Glen Innes.”
“The government is now planning on taking this approach to the rest of the country – stripping out state housing for
private sector profit.”
The march will be led by groups from Invercargill and Tauranga – the first two cities where the government plans the
wholesale privatisation of state houses.
ENDS