Social housing overhaul
Prime Minister John Key has described plans to overhaul social housing over the coming parliamentary term, in a speech at the Stamford Plaza.
He said tenants on higher incomes could be encouraged to move on to make way for needier cases, houses would be sold to approved social housing providers and redevelopment was likely to provide houses that were a better fit for tenants' needs.
A review of Housing New Zealand's role as the country's biggest landlord would be completed over the first six months of the year.
Once that happened, the Government would look to sell 2000 properties over the next year and up to 8000 by 2017.
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