Tamaki residents 'kept in the dark'

A resident of the Auckland suburb of Tamaki says she has been kept in the dark over the Government's move to redevelop the area.

The Government will transfer the ownership and management of 2,800 properties in the area to the Tamaki Redevelopment Company, in a joint venture with the Auckland Council.

Betty Kanuta, 57, said she was pushed out of Glen Innes to make way for a development project, and was now living in Tamaki.

Ms Kanuta said she thought the same thing was going to happen there, and tenants would not have a say in the matter.

She said the letter she received yesterday from Housing New Zealand with the news was the first she had heard about it.