The Hamilton City Council has voted to sell its pensioner housing to local social housing providers.
The 344 units will go on the market in February next year.
Conditions of any sale include guaranteeing that existing tenants can stay in their units for as long as they like, and that the units must remain as social housing for the next 10 years.
Any pensioner housing units not sold would remain in council hands.
The New Plymouth District Council has decided to ditch a review of its pensioner flats, which are worth up to $15m but make an annual loss of about $100,000.
A mock-coffin symbolising the possible demise of council-owned pensioner housing units in Hamilton was carried into the council building today as part of protest action.
A Northland-based community trust says selling state houses to iwi will not solve the problem of low Maori home ownership, but shift the problem to another generation.
A network of Auckland community groups providing urgent housing in emergencies is criticising the Government's plan to sell thousands of state houses. Audio
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