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# Housing minister’s failure in his own electorate goes international
- URL: https://goodoil.news/housing-ministers-failure-in-his-own-electorate-goes-international/
- Published: 2019-06-08T22:00:07.000Z
- Updated: 2019-06-08T01:51:57.000Z
- Author: Juana Atkins
- Tags: #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 04:14

Jacinda Ardern’s Wellbeing budget has made international headlines for all the wrong reasons. One headline reads…

## ‘Roaming cats, faeces and cockroaches’: Squalid caravan park deemed unsafe for children is charging $500 per week for filthy living conditions in tiny cabins

> A caravan park which was deemed unsafe for children is charging desperate families up to $500 per week to live in tiny cabins without sufficient plumbing or heating.  
> Some of the units occupied by long term tenants in Western Park Village in Auckland, New Zealand have no toilets, bathrooms, or stoves.   
> Residents share communal facilities, and are charged up to $500 per week for accommodation.  
> Villa Education Trust’s Alan Poole described the children forced to live in the squalid cabins as New Zealand’s ‘most vulnerable kids’ who get ‘no favours whatsoever’.  
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> \[…\] ‘School children live here, children under five, those kids just haven’t got a hope,’ he said.  
> The Ministry of Social Development previously described the living conditions ‘unfit for children’ and said the park is often used as a last resort for desperate and in need families.   
> **Former residents claim the living conditions were reminiscent of ‘a human zoo’.**   
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> Some of the units occupied by long term tenants in Western Park Village in Ranui, Auckland on New Zealand’s north island, have no toilet, bathroom, or stove  
> One former tenant said he had ‘plenty of bad experiences living there’.  
> ‘It was hell… we had major problems with cockroaches… roaming cats, faeces, unsanitary drinking water, and nowhere to empty your waste from your campervan.’   
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> Housing Minister and MP for the electorate Phil Twyford told the publication he agrees it is ‘no place for children’.   
> ‘I’m sad to say it is not unusual. There are places like Western Park, campgrounds all around Auckland and New Zealand,’ he said.  
> ‘The housing crisis is utterly unsatisfactory and the conditions that people are living in campgrounds like Western Park are unsatisfactory, that’s the problem we are dealing with.’  
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> [Daily Mail](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7114195/Squalid-caravan-park-charges-desperate-families-500-week-accommodation.html?ref=goodoil.news)

  
So much for the International reputation of Jacinda’s ‘progressive’ Wellbeing budget.