6 Jun 2018

Meth evictions. Who will take their case ?

From Nine To Noon, 9:09 am on 6 June 2018

An Auckland housing advocate says the Minister must order Housing New Zealand to immediately reimburse tenants who've been evicted on the basis of now now-discredited meth testing, and pursued for costs. Housing New Zealand's chief executive has apologised today for using flawed measures on methamphetamine contamination to evict 300 tenants and suggested it may pay compensation. But advocates say the number of tenants affected may be higher as tenants don't know where to go for help or what to do next, and there is no single agency which acts on their behalf in this matter. Kathryn Ryan talks to Angela Maynard the Coordinator of the Tenants' Protection Association Auckland and Darryn Aitchison who is the co-manager of the Auckland Community Law Centre.