The reason why practising homosexuals should not offer themselves as Christian ministers is the same reason as has prevented me, a divorced and remarried man, from accepting the offer of ordination - I am not able by my life to witness sufficiently to the ideal of Christian conduct. Sir: When lifelong Anglicans like myself leave the Church of England for the Orthodox or the Roman Catholics, this has little to do with so-called "homophobia" and everything to do with the inability of our English Church to maintain Christian doctrine. In this way, we would also be taking a preventative and pre-emptive approach to a problem which if not tackled requires a lifetime of costly remedial measures. The Prime Minister should set us the third-term ambition of doing for social behaviour what we have done so successfully for numeracy and literacy, including putting it in the National Curriculum. Right now, bad behaviour brings its own rewards and the law-abiding are suffering the consequences.A good place to start would be to promote social behaviour in children both before and during the primary years, as well as the much needed anti-social behaviour containment measures. Do people in general seem to becoming more badly behaved or is it just my perception? We've seen it with the unlawful gatherings throughout lockdown, gangs warring in plain sight and people able to terrorise neighbourhoods with impunity. The policy of giving people secure bases to better treat the underlying issues of their addictions and other issues is fine in theory but Andrew McKenzie couldn't tell me what their success rate was. The people who know how to live in a civil society get the house. Send the worst cases back to the motels where families who would do anything for a home are waiting. So appalling behaviour gets you to the top of the waiting list, the worst behaviour gets you into a house, and behaving badly keeps you in that house.Īndrew McKenzie reiterated that we don't want to make people homeless. He said because the very worst cases, the hardest to home, are given priority. I asked him why some of the 24,000 people on the waiting list for a home couldn't be put into one of the homes the bad tenants clearly don't respect. Even if they trash a property, if they make the lives of their neighbours unbearable, they will simply be moved on to another property.Īndrew McKenzie's response to every question or point I raised is that we don't want people, especially children, living on the streets. Therefore, Kāinga Ora won't make people homeless. He said as a nation we have said we don't want people homeless, and we don't want children living in cars. Kāinga Ora chief executive Andrew McKenzie came on to my show this week to defend the policy of eviction as the very last resort. The vast majority of Kāinga Ora tenants are good people, grateful to have a roof over their heads after years of struggling in the private rental market. To quote a favourite phrase of the Prime Minister's, let me be perfectly clear. Since Labour entered office in 2017, there have been just three evictions from state-house tenancies none since 2018. In Parliament this week, Poto Williams, the Associate Minister for Housing, denied that there was a no-eviction policy mandated by the Government, but said Kāinga Ora was "committed to sustaining tenancies" to ensure vulnerable tenants with social and health problems have a "secure foundation" to get the help they need.įor context, there were more than 120 evictions from state-house tenancies between 20. It's not that they cannot – it's that they will not. The discussion followed stories in the Herald of people who were at their wits' end because of the behaviour of their neighbours – Kāinga Ora tenants who were making the lives of other tenants and homeowners within the community unbearable with their antisocial and appalling behaviour.Ĭompounding the misery of living next door to someone who parties all night, and sleeps all day who has knock 'em down, drag 'em out fights in their home and in the street who is foul-mouthed and abusive to all those around them who dumps their rubbish – in some cases, quite literally their crap - in the backyards of their neighbours who has patched gang member mates threaten to kill anyone who complains – compounding all this is that Kāinga Ora, which owns and manages the homes and tenancies, will not evict even their most disruptive tenants. You're also not able to pick your neighbours.Īnd the stories I've heard this week from people unfortunate enough to find tenants from hell have moved in next door would make your hair curl. The old saying goes that you can pick your friends, but you can't pick your relatives.
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