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You can argue a lot about what the Government has announced this week, the school lunches, the military-style boot camps, and yesterday's housing shake up.\xa0

But they have one critical advantage. What they are addressing, indisputably, has not worked under the other Government's view of the world.\xa0

The school lunch programme is hundreds of millions of dollars of waste.\xa0

The crime rate got hopelessly out of control, especially among young people and the poverty figures did not improve, in fact they went backwards.\xa0

It is a demonstrable failure in a variety of areas, which is why in part we have a new Government, and a new Government gets to have a crack at these issues and do it their way.\xa0

Emergency housing is arguably the biggest disgrace of all.\xa0

One million dollars a day spent, places like Rotorua ruined by reputational damage - and after years of it are we any better off? No.\xa0

So, we've got a new way and the critical part, and the bit that gives this lot the best chance of success, is getting the private sector involved.\xa0

If ideology was on display at its most inept, it was this idea that the Labour Government had that they are the ones who could build all the houses and meet all the demand.\xa0

They couldn\u2019t and they didn\u2019t.\xa0

The rigour went by the wayside years ago and the expectation on the tenants was long forgotten.\xa0

Behaviour fell, issues arose, contributions that were supposed to be made never were by way of rent, no one got evicted and nearly no one got held to account. It is a shocking, embarrassing, cataclysmic disgrace.\xa0

So, a change.\xa0

Put the worst to the top of the list.\xa0

Bring in accountability. Have you made an effort? Have you avoided paying your share? Have you caused trouble? It's not onerous by way of expectation I wouldn\u2019t have thought.\xa0

The private sector is being called in to do what they do best - supply.\xa0

Is it a magic bullet? Of course not\xa0

But it's hard to believe it isn't going to be a marked and impressive improvement on the social stain Labour called a policy.\xa0

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