00:00Minister in the Housing Ministry, Philip Alexander, told the Maloney HDC community for what he calls a fact-finding mission.
00:08We want to find out what's going on. At the end of the day, we have a lot of tenants
00:12here that need to have proper living accommodation.
00:16We're trying to bring the outstanding rentals up to date.
00:19We have a lot of people who, yeah, we have some outstanding rent, something to collect up here.
00:26The $350 a month rent, they've been remissing their payments. We're trying to bring that up to date.
00:32Alexander says these issues plagued many HDC developments.
00:36One resident was at hand to openly vocalize his complaints.
00:41We have no pipe, no plastic pipe, and other things. I have 10 and 2.
00:45And if I could cry and shame in my place, if I see my ground, if I see water coming,
00:49she might even do enough time.
00:51She knows us too. She knows us.
00:53We know. But you've been abandoned by a previous administration.
00:58This didn't happen this year. But this didn't happen now.
01:01I've been abandoned by HDC.
01:03The minister said the resident was not being fair.
01:06There has to be an accounting for the condition of these communities.
01:11Somebody is responsible for this.
01:13He cannot say to me, standing here, that the madness that I am seeing walking here together with all of
01:20you,
01:20that was responsible by the last administration, you cannot say, put that under the rug and move on.
01:26This is what we have seen throughout the entire country.
01:29Alexander said the resident was upset that the grass cutting will no longer go to him, but instead to an
01:36HDC roving crew.
01:38Okay, but I'm saying, I'm saying, I'm saying, I'm saying, listen, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, hear
01:43me.
01:43I just come out of my portfolio as a foreman, pick up a waka, cut, watch, I get damaged as
01:48a foreman and I didn't get nothing.
01:50All right, listen.
01:50You wouldn't want to hear me because you didn't shoot us again.
01:53But you're speaking the truth to me and you're throwing a tantrum to me that you were supposed to throw
01:58to the last administration and you didn't.
02:00Did you tell them that?
02:02Yeah.
02:03And how did they respond?
02:05Ignore.
02:06Duplications of contracts.
02:07This is what we've learned.
02:10The HDC was cutting the grass on one side of the pavement and there were CPEP contractors cutting the grass
02:16on the other side of the pavement.
02:17That didn't make any sense at all.
02:18The streamlining, all of the operations to make this HDC more cost competitive and functional.
02:24That is where we're at.
02:25So we came to see for ourselves.
02:28We're here in the rain.
02:29There's no flooding really.
02:31The grass cutting is due to start on Monday.
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