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Partnering with City Safe to support the city’s most vulnerable
Hamilton City Council has finished deliberations on the 2020 review of its Annual Plan, and it was great see that it has approved additional funding to continue the city safe suburban response for another year. City Safe is one of our key partners in Hamilton. We work...
Severe housing deprivation in Aotearoa New Zealand
Researchers from the University of Otago's He Kāinga Oranga Housing and Health Research Programme have released a new report about severe housing deprivation, or homelessness, in Aotearoa New Zealand. This research is based on analysis of 2018 Census data and...
Sunlive.co.nz – Crisis creates real homes
The People’s Project has housed about 54 individuals in Tauranga motel units since alert level 4 lockdown. Service manager Simone Cuers says despite the dreadful impact of the COVID-19 crisis here and globally, it has been a “game-changer” for the homeless community...
Stuff.co.nz – It would be so much cheaper just to house the homeless, so what are we waiting for?
”We can have a future in this country where every single person and whanau is housed and why wouldn't we want that? Look at what we were able to do in a really short period of time where a team of five million came together and actually took care of communities. Why...
Operational changes in response to COVID-19 Alert Level 2
On Monday, 18 May most of our team will begin a staggered return back to our offices in Hamilton and Tauranga after working from home for the past eight weeks. To ensure everyone’s safety, we are rearranging our office layouts to ensure physical distancing between...
