Perhaps the minister for social development or minister for housing might have those details at their fingertips but the prime minister? Nah, no way.

He is announcing the policy of kicking out people from public housing. He should have some idea of how many people are going to be left homeless as a result of this.

I guess there will be a case-by-case determination of who has crossed some sort of as-yet-undefined line. Hard to predict where that’s going to go.

Yes it will be completely arbitrary based on the neighbours, the case workers etc.

Luxon made the point that is there is a long waiting list of people who who will be better neighbors than those he’s seeking to kick out.

Yes. But he didn’t answer the question of what happens to the now homeless family.

Yes it might result in some people (potentially with kids) being made homeless but it will free up space so that an equal amount of currently-homeless people will have a home instead.

Well those people might also be kicked out so who knows.

It’s homeless-neutral, if you will.

It’s not though. I guarantee you this policy is designed to have less people in public housing in the end. This government doesn’t believe in public housing.