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April 11, 2025
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Kāinga Ora offloads local houses to spend elsewhere
A boutique cluster of state houses in the heart of Devonport is being sold off by Crown housing agency Kāinga Ora as it says it can no longer afford to maintain them. The tenants, some of whom have lived in the homes for decades, have been given 90 days’ notice to leave.
Most of the six Kerr St homes for sale are more than 90 years old “and no longer economical for Kāinga Ora to maintain”, said Jody Jackson-Va’asiliifiti, acting regional director for North and West Auckland. The sell-off was part “of a wider programme of work to improve the quality of
our housing portfolio and make sure we have the right homes in the right locations for those that need them”. “We have decided the best approach is to sell the homes, which sit on a total land area of 2006sqm, and reinvest the money from To page 2
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