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Millions paid out to house homeless

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Gisborne’s top-earning emergency accommodation provider The Colonial on Gladstone Motel received $1.8m through emergency housing special needs grants last year. Picture by Liam Clayton

Four Gisborne motels, residents park paid over $1m from emergency accommodation grants in 2022 Some Gisborne motels are still earning more than $1 million a year providing emergency accommodation for the Government, despite a drop in grants and the number of providers.

Emergency housing suppliers here were paid a total of $12.155m by the Ministry of Social Development last year to house the hom...

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Rae O'Connor
Gisborne Herald
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16 July 2023
Kia ora, it was the National Government who started housing street or car sleepers in motels, possibly because they sold off thousands of HNZ stock to the Chinese under J Key. Those new owners boarded them up and went home. Minister Bennet was the Minister in charge of that at the time.
The NZ Labour Government, since becoming the hardest working Govt, built well over Twelve Thousand new Kainga Ora homes. During Covid they housed via the motels because in National's time in Govt. they only sold off HNZ stock - they did not build anything, no infrastructure or anything. They appear to have sat on their hands...
Rae O'Connor

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