Law breaking tenants would be locked out of a state house for up to a year under National Party policy released today.

National leader John Key and housing spokesman Phil Heatley announced the state housing policy in Porirua today.

Key said National would insulate all state houses built before 1987 by the end of 2013.

An existing insulation programme would be expanded to cover a further 4600 state houses, he said.

“This will ensure thousands of New Zealand families have a brighter future through living in a warmer, drier, and healthier homes,” Key said.

“Funding for this will be allocated from Housing New Zealand’s baseline so National is also filling it’s promise to do better with the money we have.”

Heatley said National would “stay strong on crime” in state houses.

“Over the past three years, 400 tenants have been moved on from state housing for vandalism, fraud, and other serious anti-social behaviour, and they have been replaced with tenants in genuine need,” Heatley said. ”We will continue to ensure there is a no-nonsense approach to those few State housing tenants acting outside the law, and will crack down on any illegal behaviour.”

The party would introduce a suspensions policy so a state house tenant evicted for illegal behaviour would not be eligible for another state house for up to a year.

“Neighbouring state house tenants and those in privately owned homes deserve peaceful, crime-free streets,” Heatley said.

The party’s policy did not say what would happen to those evicted and suspended from being tenants.

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