John Key’s asset sales outed by his own Minister

National needs to come clean about the motivations behind selling state houses after Paula Bennett’s asset sale admission, said the Green Party today.

On Saturday, Paula Bennett, the Minister for Social Housing admitted, in a televised interview, that the sale of state houses by the Government was in fact an asset sale.

“New Zealanders weren’t told asset sales were on the cards before the election, and now that is exactly what is happening,” said Green Party housing spokesperson Kevin Hague.

“To make things worse, Paula Bennett said there is no guarantee the proceeds will go into funding new state housing.

“This goes to show this is just about asset sales and not about improving the lives of the many New Zealanders who desperately need homes.

“John Key said he wouldn’t be selling our assets earlier this year but has been outed by his own Minister.

“You don’t just decide to sell a billion dollars worth of assets overnight, it’s implausible to think the Government didn’t have asset sales on their mind before the election.

“This is a typical example of an arrogant Government who think they can just slip an asset sale past the public without anyone noticing.

“There is a real housing crisis in New Zealand and the Government needs to fix this as opposed to just selling off more of our valuable assets,” said Mr Hague.

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