An increasing problem in Papua New Guinea is that public housing is being sold by rogue housing officers. The house may be sold to a person living far away from the house but rent money is diverted to a private account.
The occupant tenant may think that the rent money is going into the National Housing Corporation but it is not. It may well be that many corrupt housing officers have stolen a home unit and diverted the rent to their own bank account taken out in a false name.
As the numbers of housing units is being increased, the more public houses will end up in private hands. The system of accounting is basically flawed. It has been rendered useless by a generation of officers stealing and deleting houses from the register.
How many units of public housing exist? Who knows?
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