September 26, 2023
New public housing opened
Te Tai Tokerau MP Kelvin Davis says the opening of 13 new homes in Kaitaia brings the number of new Kainga Ora dwellings built under Labour to almost 18,000.
That compared to the record of the John Key National Government which finished its nine years with 12-hundred fewer state houses than when it started.
He says there’s more to come, but it takes time to get through the consent process.
“There’s another development in Kerikeri that Kerikeri people with their elitist views don’t like it because they say it’s battery caging like hens all squashed together. I think that’s a terrible attitude which just shows they don’t want state house residents living next to them and I think that’s terrible,” Mr Davis says.