Not installers' right to limit access
Just 5 per cent of the country’s rental stock has been insulated under the scheme, which offers a 33 per cent subsidy for houses built before 2000, or a 60 per cent subsidy for community services cardholders or their landlords.
That is a low level of engagement, compared to the hundreds of thousands of private homes that have been insulated.
But a significant concern is the suggestion that some insulation installers are limiting the 60 per cent subsidy access, because they think landlords are somehow going to take advantage of it.
At the weekend, one Manurewa landlord was quoted in the Herald on Sunday, saying that one installer would not let him have the subsidy because they thought it was likely that he would then move back into his rental property. The suggestion was that he was merely using his tenant to get the good deal, before whipping the property out from under her.
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