PHOTO: A home is decontaminated. A May report found there was no real risk to health from contamination from meth consumption, not production.
Housing New Zealand will compensate 800 tenants kicked out of their homes for meth tests the agency now admits were wrongly used and not needed.
In a huge mea culpa, the state housing agency has finally apologised and admitted to misusing a Ministry of Health guideline while pursuing an “dogmatic” policy of zero tolerance it now admits has “little merit”.
The apology and offer to compensate kicked-out tenants by between $2500 and $3000 comes as a report into the agency’s meth testing regime was finally released on Thursday morning.
It finds that between July 2013 and May 2018 nearly 5000 Housing New Zealand (HNZ) properties were tested for meth contamination, with about half of these tests testing positive for the too-low standard at the time.
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