Emergency Housing

A $90 million housing fund promises to tackle the Bay of Plenty's housing crisis
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A group of exploited migrant workers have been told they must vacate emergency housing by ten o'clock Friday morning.

The men - many of whom paid thousands of dollars to come to New Zealand for work… Audio

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How do some of society's most vulnerable people – men in particular – fall into insecure housing? Audio

Kelly has a heartwarming story from an anonymous local businessman who has paid for a new play ground for the Rotorua Seventh-day Adventist School on Fenton St. The street is at the core of emergency… Audio

Emergency housing in motels has been a huge issue in Rotorua for three years, starting in the first Covid lockdown and it has proliferated since then. Felix says the main issue is its concentration… Audio

Rotorua Mayor Tania Tapsell says it is very disappointing to hear the Social Development Minister say there is no end date for Rotorua motels being used as emergency housing.

"It is absolutely one of… Video, Audio

Residents and business owners have called the emergency housing system in Rotorua a "fiasco".

Today, locals and businesses told the housing ministry how the programme affects their lives and… Video, Audio

Outside our bigger cities, Aotearoa's smaller centres are seeing stacked races and fraught local issues. Audio

The Police Minister lashed out at National's Nicola Willis in Parliament on Tuesday after a range of questions over crime in emergency housing.

Poto Williams was defending a response she gave back in… Audio

A big pot of money set aside to help whānau living in motels has failed to make it to many children in need.

The Flexible Funding Programme was launched last year, and is often highlighted by the… Audio

A year after ministers were warned emergency housing was posing a risk to public safety in Rotorua, the government is moving to clean up the problems.

It will directly contract motels for emergency… Audio

The government wants to stop relying on motels for emergency housing - but it won't stop using them entirely.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and housing ministers Megan Woods and Kris Faafoi, have… Audio

The government spent a record $34 million on emergency housing at hostels and motels between April and June - up nearly 230 percent from the same time last year. Nita Blake-Persen reports. Audio

Work and Income staff are turning away homeless people in Auckland, telling them there is no emergency housing available, multiple sources say. Checkpoint has learnt of several people told this in… Audio

Conditions at some emergency housing providers in Whanganui are so poor they are putting vulnerable people at risk, the city's Salvation Army's tenancy manager for emergency housing says. Video, Audio

Housing Minister Phil Twyford says New Zealand’s longest tax-payer funded emergency housing tenant, Robert Erueti, should never have been evicted from his HNZ home. Video, Audio