PHOTO: Calls are growing for landlords to suspend or reduce rent payments during the lockdown. Credits: Video – Newshub ; Image – Supplied/Angela Olsen
Kiwi landlord offering her properties free of charge to those struggling in the COVID-19 pandemic is challenging other landlords to do the same.
Angela Olsen has stepped in to help New Zealand’s most vulnerable by listing her two Auckland properties for just $1 a week. The houses will serve as emergency housing for displaced people throughout the lockdown period.
“I did it on a whim really,” she told Newshub.
Olsen’s previous tenant in her five-bedroom property in West Harbour had left without notice the morning of the lockdown.
After contacting WINZ and Immigration New Zealand to see if they could use the property and getting nowhere, Olsen took matters into her own hands.
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