Scared Auckland residents beg Kāinga Ora to evict neighbour

PHOTO: Neighbours say they’ve put up with violence, intimidation and noisy parties for years. Photo credit: Google Maps

Note: All names have been changed to protect the people involved.

Residents of a quiet south Auckland street are pleading with Kāinga Ora to evict their neighbour, saying years of complaints over violence, drug use, intimidation, theft and noisy parties have fallen on deaf ears.

Neighbours have made regular complaints about the tenant over the years she has lived there, alleging her home is a meeting spot for gang affiliates and that police are there frequently to deal with domestic violence callouts.

One resident is now actively looking to move his family out of Auckland altogether after his five-year-old son was left with anxiety from allegedly being chased by the tenant’s dog and then watching his mother be assaulted by two female occupants of the property.

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Another neighbour, herself a Kāinga Ora customer, says she’s put in a request with the agency to move her out of the neighbourhood.

Despite Kāinga Ora saying it “takes the complaints about disruptive behaviour very seriously”, the tenant has been allowed to continue living in the property without repercussions, though she is now being offered support to “improve her behaviour as a neighbour”.

Their experience is the latest in a litany of stories about the inaction of Kāinga Ora, which has come under fire after it was revealed not a single tenant had been evicted from their homes in more than three years.