jul 8, 2021 - Public Housing Tenancy Reviews - paused

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In March 2020, public housing tenancy reviews had been suspended by the Ministry of Social Development to allow resources to be repriortised in response to COVID-19.

In order to provide stability for public housing tenants potentially impacted by any resurgence of COVID-19 and to allow Ministry staff to be reassigned to higher priority work, the suspension of tenancy reviews was extended until February 2022.

Prior to the initial suspension in March 2020, very few public housing tenants were exiting public housing following a tenancy review and Kāinga Ora, as part of its focus on sustaining tenancies, was not issuing a 90-day notice to end a tenancy where a tenancy review had determined that a tenant was no longer eligible for public housing.

The pause on public housing tenancy reviews was subsequently extended until June 2022.

Source: https://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-work/about-msd/history/social-assistance-chronology-programme-history.html

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