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Kudos to NZ’s coalition Govt for housing Kiwi children

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Homeless people — especially young tamariki squeezed into motel living accommodation — are not the headlines any Government wants. 

That’s why the coalition Government must be applauded for the speed and urgency it placed on getting children and their whānau out of emergency motels and into homes. 

It hasn’t got rid of the emergency housing list but it appears that it is makin...


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Mary-Ann de Kort
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25 September 2024
Yet our coalition Govt hasn't commissioned any extra state houses to be built.
In fact they have cancelled many new housing projects around Aotearoa, putting the construction industry, which relied on those contracts, on its knees.
The state houses currently being built have been started by our previous Labour Govt.
Perhaps you should be congratulating them for their good work in providing homes for the ex-motel dwellers to go to.
It also seems that there are 20% of people who have been moved out of motels who are unaccounted for. Are they part of the extra people living in cars?
Many of the thousands of new tradie apprentices through Labour training schemes are among the 130,000 who have left NZ for greener offshore pastures.

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