Te Puea Marae hailed as transitional housing success

The grass-roots model an Auckland Marae developed to house hundreds of homeless people is being touted as a viable way to deal with urban homelessness. For the past year, Te Puea Marae has worked with the National Science Challenge on a research project to show why its transitional housing programme has been a success. Yesterday, it was the turn of manuhiri or visitors to give thanks to Te Puea Marae - as the first part of its research project was released. Te Manu Korihi reporter John Boynton has more.