Sue Henry: "Salvation Army (corporate) help turn tenants into ca$h cows'

7 December 2015

"Today's announcement that the Salvation Army is
is another step towards the privatisation of housing delivery," says Housing Lobby Spokesperson, Sue Henry.

"If the Salvation Army previously didn't have the expertise and resources to play the role of 'landlord', has $10 million dollars from the Government and a 25 year guaranteed income stream from taxpayers, suddenly made them experts?"

http://www.salvationarmy.org.nz/research-media/media-centre/media-releases/TSA-no-Govt-housing

"This fragmented, treacherous policy was concocted with the collusion of the Salvation Army and property development companies in April 2010 with the 'Shareholders' Advisory Group Report.

http://www.building.govt.nz/userfiles/file/publications/sector/pdf/vision-for-social-housing-nz.pdf

"Vulnerable tenants, including the 68,000 State tenant families, in future, would become no more than 'cash cows' for private sector providers and corporate NGOs, to extract subsidies from the taxpayers' pocket."

"In response to the Salvation Army claim, that there is no 'good quality' housing available, is quite misleading when sound, native timber State houses are being bulldozed into a pile of rubble in different parts of Auckland, and the land transferred to private property developers."

(Please be reminded that in the USA, the Salvation Army is the 2nd biggest of 50 charities, with a revenue of $4.3 billion.)

http://www.forbes.com/companies/salvation-army/

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