A nationwide property management company is actively discouraging landlords from offering rent holidays to struggling tenants during the Covid-19 shutdown.
On its website and in emails to landlords, Property Brokers says tenants should instead be encouraged to seek government help or offered grocery vouchers or assistance with utilities bills.
That's appalled a renters advocacy group, who says it's far from the 'kind' approach the government is encouraging people to take right now.
Taranaki-Whanganui reporter Robin Martin has more.
