You protest about welfare etc and yet you recieve student loans from the government. How about you be a Real libertarian and get a personal loan out instead?

As someone who has lived in a state house before (Im assuming those Patea houses are State houses, if not this is just a ramble) I can say there is a major problem, You potentially could lose your bond etc and be penalised if you try to improve your lot. The we lived in was very crappy. The tiles were worn off and when the washing machine was going the back yard would flood everytime. Also the chimney was cracked worse than the one that caused our families previous Housefire. When mum got the opportunity through family friends to get a huge (legal) discount on goods and services that would have improved the house immensely and stopped it being a health hazard, Housing New Zealand forbade the work being done (even though it would have cost them nothing and when we shifted out the health dept declared it a health risk and they had to pay for the repairs themselves). Before anyone says “But private ownership would be better and this would not happen” Should talk to some of the people who have gone into private rentals. Once again this is personal experience. After the housefire the next house we rented (private rental) Mum almost fell through the walls, they were so badly rotten. Another house we stayed in the floor was starting to rot and if a fat person sat on the toilet they would have fallen through the floor (seriously). In the first case it was fixed after we left and in the second the landlady decided to sell it without warning form under us.