Hundreds of protesters turned out to support 'Niki' Rauti as she fights eviction from her Housing New Zealand home.

An Auckland beneficiary has been brought to tears after hundreds of people turned out to support her eviction fight.

Ioela Ana Rauti, also known as 'Niki', is refusing to accept an eviction notice from her home of over 30 years.

On October 12 the Tamaki Regeneration Company (TRC) handed her a 90-day eviction notice to vacate her two-bedroom home, in Taniwha St in Glen Innes.

SIMON MAUDE / FAIRFAX NZ Niki Rauti was left in tears after hundreds of people turned out to support her.

TRC is a housing development company jointly owned by the Government and Auckland Council.

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Rauti's home is one of 2800 state houses TRC has earmarked to be replaced with 7500 new homes over the next 15 years.

SIMON MAUDE / FAIRFAX NZ Hundreds of protesters converged on Niki Rauti's Glen Innes home.

The eviction notice expires on Wednesday, but on Tuesday evening the anti-eviction protesters converged on the home.

Some said they would conduct a sit-in.

Two separate groups, waving banners and chanting slogans, marched through the Glen Innes streets in support of Rauti's cause.

SIMON MAUDE / FAIRFAX NZ Niki Rauti said she had been told to move out of her Taniwha St home by Wednesday.

"Thank you, thank you," she said as she wiped away tears welcoming the protesters.

Earlier, an emotional Rauti told Stuff she'd lived in the house a long time.

"I wish they would just leave me alone.

TORIKA TOKALAU/FAIRFAX NZ Ioela Ana Rauti Niki's 90-day eviction notice expires on Wednesday but she has no plans to leave her Glenn Innes home.

"I've got a heart condition and I've nowhere else to go."

Rauti, who lives on a government benefit, said she moved to the Taniwha St home in 1985 to look after her sick mum.

Her mum died in 1992, and since then Rauti has been issued several eviction notices from Housing New Zealand, which owned the state house before it was transferred to TRC.

After she underwent heart surgery in 2000, her doctors pleaded with Housing New Zealand to let her stay in the home, she said.

Rauti said she understood TRC will relocate her to one of the new homes in its Glenn Innes development but after inspecting some options, she's adamant that none of them are good enough.

She'd be willing to compromise if the the right house was found for her but all the ones TRC had shown her had problems, ranging from being cold and damp to poorly laid-out.

"I went to a house they had for me in Rowena Cres and the yard was flooded.

"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that it was in no living condition. And they offered me a two-storey home but I have a heart problem, I am old - how am I supposed to get around?

"It's about the freedom to choose where you want to live - they are taking that freedom away from us."

TRC housing general manager Neil Porteous said Rauti has been offered five properties over the past four months.

"We are currently holding a new warm, dry home nearby for her.

"We have not received any feedback from Ms Rauti on the houses we have offered her. We welcome her getting in touch with us to discuss her needs."

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