The future remains unclear for three Hutt Valley women linked to the Mongrel Mob, who are fighting their state-house evictions.
The Human Rights Review Tribunal on Tuesday reserved its decision, after a week-long hearing, that the women were being discriminated against for the actions of their partners.
In a closing submission, the womens' lawyer Mark Lillico told of the 14 children affected in the case.
He explained it would be awful if the stability in life that their mothers had achieved was unravelled by the evictions from the suburb of Pomare, a place they have strong ties to.
But Housing New Zealand's counsel Steve Haszard urged the tribunal to remember the other, equally vulnerable tenants of the neighbourhood, whose ability to get safe, secure housing was being prejudiced by escalating violence and intimidation.
A final ruling is expected within a month.
