12 Dec 2018

Drug abuse, housing still major concerns - Salvation Army

From Morning Report, 6:19 am on 12 December 2018

People on the streets want to see action as well as words from the government as their communities struggle with the problems of drug abuse, lack of mental health services and housing shortages. That's the message from the Salvation Army's annual State of Our Communities report. It spoke to six hundred people on the streets of Kaitaia, Whangarei, Manurewa, New Plymouth, Hornby and Timaru. The Salvation Army's Ronji Tanielu told RNZ reporter Amy Williams one of the questions they were asked was, what would you say to the Prime Minister?