New Zealand's state housing agency maintains it has a number of tools for dealing with unruly tenants.

Newstalk ZB has revealed only three Kāinga Ora tenants have been evicted for bad behaviour since a crackdown announced February last year.

There were 10 ,000 complaints over the same period.

New measures included a termination option if three serious incidents were recorded within a 90-day period.

Kāinga Ora national services manager Nick Maling told Kerre Woodham the first focus is helping people sustain a tenancy in the community.

"Things do go wrong, so when they go wrong we sit together alongside both our tenants and the neighbours of those tenants to resolve situations where we can."

He says the vast majority of tenants are living in the community with no problems.

Almost 200,000  people live in Kāinga Ora homes and 90 percent of tenancies had no complaints in the past year.

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