Tenants could be hesitant to try enforce Healthy Homes Standards, lawyer says Charlie Dreaver © RNZ / Eleisha Foon
Those advocating for tenants say it should not be up to renters to enforce the Healthy Home Standards - due to the power imbalance.
If a landlord has not complied with Health Homes Standards after 90 days, renters are able to apply to the Tenancy Tribunal for a work order. Photo: RNZ / Eleisha Foon
From this month, landlords have to meet the healthy homes standards within 90 days of a new tenancy.
However housing lawyer Machrus Siregar from Community Law Wellington explained there were complications if the landlord had not complied after that 90 day period.
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Collins on Bridges wokester jibe: I wouldn t call someone that © RNZ / Samuel Rillstone
National Party leader Judith Collins says justice spokesperson Simon Bridges should direct criticism to ministers not the police commissioner, who he labelled a wokester .
The party s justice spokesperson, Simon Bridges, called Police Commissioner Andrew Coster our wokester commissioner in response to a police operation targeting guns held by organised crime groups and gangs. © RNZ / Sam Rillstone, Dom Thomas
On Tuesday he doubled down on his criticism saying there had been multiple occasions where the commissioner had put being nice and policing by consent ahead of catching criminals.