'Post-apocalypse': Residents want answers over Wellington ghost houses

Karl Frost sighs as he walks towards a shuttered grey housing block on a desolate Wellington cul-de-sac. <b>By Ellen O'Dwyer of </b><a href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions_wellington/723806/so-depressing-residents-push-for-answers-over-wellington-ghost-houses" target="_blank"><b>RNZ</b></a> "It's just... it's depressing, it really is — it's so depressing when you see the state of things and you knew it was so close, so close." He's staring at three boarded-up blocks of Kāinga Ora homes on the entirely empty Ngatiapa Street. Windows cracked or smashed, white paint slapped over graffiti, external pipes starting to "fall off the sides of the building" — Frost described the street as "derelict". "It's just completely out of place, given generally how lively this suburb is, the number of people, and then you've suddenly you've got this street which is derelict, its empty, there's no one here. "You could turn down to Ngatiapa and feel like you're in some kind of dystopian, post-apocalypse movie."