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Speaker 1: Any Smith, former Chief Executive of Monte Cecilia Housing Trust,

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Speaker 1: is with us as well. Bernie. Morning to you, morning mine.

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Speaker 1: So what's your thing the way the government broadly speaking

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Speaker 1: of approaching new chair, new board, new chief executive and

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Speaker 1: today the announcement we're going to have a lot of land,

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Speaker 1: Is that, broadly speaking, in your view the right thing

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Speaker 1: to be doing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. I think the previous board and CEO

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Speaker 2: just we're given unilateral decisions to do what they wanted,

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Speaker 2: when they wanted, how they wanted, and now we're in

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Speaker 2: this position.

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Speaker 1: The use of the private provider, so this government favors

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Speaker 1: that more than the previous government. Is that the way forward?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think we still need both. We need coming

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Speaker 2: or as well. But I think community housing providers certainly

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Speaker 2: offer in the community for the community and has a

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Speaker 2: better way of managing tenants who and has medical and

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Speaker 2: other risks where supporters required more.

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Speaker 1: In depth the attitude as landlord. Do you think that'll

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Speaker 1: change and did it need to change?

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Speaker 2: Well, it needs to change, Mike. I mean I'm a

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Speaker 2: little bit concerned about the letter that was given to

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Speaker 2: the board chair from the Housing Minister because the emphasis

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Speaker 2: is on the finances, which obviously needed to be but

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Speaker 2: regarding the management of tenants and supportive tenants came in

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Speaker 2: point four and it was more about misbehaving tenants than

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Speaker 2: actually working to ensure that tenants have their well being

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Speaker 2: taken care of while they're in state housing exactly.

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Speaker 1: Bernie Good to catch up here as always Bernie Smith,

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Speaker 1: former CEO of Monte Cecilia Housing. For more from Newstalk

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