Andrew Austin, editor of Hawke's Bay Today.
Opinion
They say that a home is a person's castle.
It does not matter if that home is a rental or possibly even a Housing NZ house.
All that counts is when a house, or probably any structure, becomes a home. Driving down any residential street in the Bay, you can tell
which houses are loved and cared for.
It does not matter if the house is a one-bedroom unit or a multimillion-dollar mansion, one can always tell if if a family have spent time to maintain it and give it a unique character, it is like a beacon of homeliness.
I am sure some people will form a certain opinion about the story in today's paper about a woman who says she has been forced out of her Housing NZ house of 10 years because of methamphetamine (P) contamination. Lorraine Ferrall, of Onekawa, said HNZ's behaviour in not telling her about the testing of the contaminated house made the situation worse.
However, the corporation is standing by its decision to not contact her and says the testing of her home was not done sooner because of the holidays.
