Yeah no. We are talking about a tenant, ripping the doors off the walls pulling up carpet, stealing and selling the toilet, white goods, cabinets. The destruct

Yeah no. We are talking about a tenant, ripping the doors off the walls pulling up carpet, stealing and selling the toilet, white goods, cabinets. The destruction and damage being so complete it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to repair, and this is not a one off occurance. These small minority of tenants impose significant costs on public housing, which then means the government doesn't have the funding to build more houses. A lack of minor maintenance as you describe is due to shoddy contractors ripping off the government, doing a sub-standard job. They are responsible for doing that maintenance, and cut costs by avoiding call-outs until its significant and then do a half arsed job fixing it.