Sale of surplus houses
Sir,—Your editorial of March 3 on the sale of surplus houses is significant more by its omissions than its content. Reading the well reasoned presentation I waited for some hint of the policy’s consequences. My eyes fell upon the word dislocate but found that the only context in which the editorial saw fit to use this work related to the effect on the property market. While many of the houses proposed for sale are unoccupied or occupied by State servants, a significant number provide low-cost rental accommodation for people who are in the lower income brackets. This is particularly true of motorway
corridor houses in inner Christchurch. The wholesale and rapid selling off of these houses can only result in the callous dislocation of a significant number of people. This will inevitably put further stress on an already severely stressed rental situation.—Yours, etc.,
ROD DONALD. March 5, 1984.
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