Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Tag: housing warrant of fitness

  • Nick Smith stands by slumlords, basically

    Today Andrew Little’s Healthy Homes Guarantee Bill will get its first reading in Parliament. It requires all tenancy agreements to guarantee that the property being let meets minimum standards for…

  • Poor suffering property investors

    Jess McAllen has a great article in the Sunday Star-Times about the plight of renters and the should-be-criminal state of many rental properties in NZ. The rats have evolved. They…

  • Costly government

    I wrote yesterday about our heartless, penny-pinching government, which emphasises Getting To Surplus at all costs even if that means kids dying in cold state houses. This is the true…

  • Heartless government

    A few stories of recent weeks which show exactly what kind of government we have. Last August, Emma-Lita Bourne died of pneumonia because the state house her family lived in…

  • Healthy, safe housing is a basic human right

    [Content note: death of a child] The Greens have been calling for a “Warrant of Fitness” on all rental properties for a while, and the need for one has been…