The last remaining tenants of a dilapidated Kāinga Ora apartment block in Wellington have held up repairs to the heritage building by refusing to leave.

The Dixon St flat tenancies ended in May but Kāinga Ora is now taking overstaying occupiers to the Tenancy Tribunal and spending an average of $40,000 a month on security in the meantime.

The apartment block was once a world-leading example of state housing in the 1940s but the Category 1 heritage building has deteriorated so much it is uninhabitable.

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