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W H A T D O W E D O N O W ?
People said...
Homelessness & Social Housing
Overcrowding
Because of COVID, kaimahi
People are living in are working huge hours...
cowsheds, lean-to's, tents. They want to help. They'll be
They are desperate. We are under extreme stress for 12 -
seeing devastating 18 months, maybe more...
whānau disintegration. __
__
Some whānau in transitional
There are only three places housing have no end in sight.
after people see us. Kāinga Ora are not talking
Hospital... prison... and the to us [providers] about when
cemetery... houses will become available.
__ __
We see... 14 people living in Registered CHPs can get rent
a three bedroom house. related subsidies. But it is
__ hard for small providers to
keep up with all the reporting
What happens long term that is required.
for whānau who have been __
suddenly housed in motels?
__ Small providers who are not
registered as CHPs don't get
Housing waitlists are not rent subsidies. Rent subsidies
working. Whānau have should be based on
been on the waitlist for 5-6 whānau needs, not the size
years and have no idea of the CHP.
__
what their priority is...
__
The [CHRA] regulations
Relocatable housing is require us [CHPs] to separate
great, short term. But not if our services. This doesn't work
whānau are stuck there, well because our kaupapa
while everyone else gets Māori values and principles
the nice houses. require us to look after the
whole person...
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