Luxon, his merry band of fuckwits, and everyone who voted for them, are cunts.
Utter cunts
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2026
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There's some type of irony in the penalty being free housing (jail), or blood from a stone ($2k penalty).
I was just looking for the cost of keeping someone in jail fro 90 days and it looks like Bernard HIckey beat me to it:
Govt threatens to imprison homeless for 90 days at a cost of $49,680 per person Govt to empower Police to 'move on' homeless with threat of three months prison, costing taxpayer $552 per person per night; Govt adds 2,000 prison beds since election & delivers 420 new homes
From: The Kaka https://thekaka.substack.com/p/govt-threatens-to-imprison-homeless
penalty being free housing (jail),
Watch as more homeless people exploit* this loophole. 90 days in jail is way better than being homeless in winter.
* it'd be cheaper and more humane to just house these people
And I thought Straya's laws about genocide protests suddenly jumped ahead in fascism. This is some next level shit. Starving/Broke? You're not allowed to beg? Heavy shit NZ.
And where will these homeless move on to Paul? They don't have homes. They're just making an inner city problem a suburb problem.
It's fine, they'll just give police powers to move them on from the suburbs next.
That kind of the point. They want to get these super vulnerable people out of the area that they live and work in, where they go they don't care, as long as it's out of their sight.