<h1>Christchurch City Council Is Flying Blind</h1><p><center><h1> Just What Is The Impact Of The Changes To Council Housing</center></h1>

Christchurch City Council: flying blind and deliberately so

The Christchurch City Council (CCC) is the second biggest landlord in NZ (after the State). So, any changes with the city’s publicly-owned housing portfolio are a big deal.
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Just such a major change is about to take effect from July, when the Council becomes a Community Housing Provider (transferring its social housing to a Trust of which the CCC is a 49% shareholder).
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 And the Council is flying blind into it without having any idea as to the impact.
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Keep Our Assets Canterbury (KOA) asked the Council, under the Official Information Act, for: “any analysis, working papers and reports addressing the impact, of the establishment of Otautahi Community Housing Trust, on;

a)      Council’s Social Housing Strategy and related Council polices and obligations
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and
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b)      Staff currently employed in the City Housing unit at CCC.
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Council declined the request because it “would require a considerable amount of collation and research to complete”.
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So, it seems glaringly obvious that the Council has done no such impact assessment.
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It is utterly outrageous that Council has pursued the establishment of the Community Housing Trust without even a cursory glance at what that may mean for Council’s ongoing rights and obligations (to the community (let alone its’ own staff).
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An “impact assessment” is management 101, particularly on a matter as fundamental as surrendering control of an asset as important as our publicly-owned housing and which affects so many people. Yet we are assured that it has not been done.
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This is the managerial equivalent of demolishing your house without having given any thought as to where you’re going to live.
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Not only is the Council flying blind into this, it is doing so deliberately.