Saturday, 15 May 2021, 1:06 pm
The Government has welcomed the release of the second
progress report on the Homelessness Action Plan, showing
that good progress is being made on every one of the
immediate actions in the Plan.
“Homelessness will
not be solved overnight, but I am pleased to see that this
plan is continuing to deliver for some of our most
vulnerable, even in the face of the additional pressures of
COVID19, housing supply shortages and affordability
struggles,” Associate Minister for Housing Marama Davidson
says.
The Homelessness Action Plan which was launched
in February 2020, and ramped up in response to COVID 19, is
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Holly Tipene says home ownership was her life-long dream, but she was stuck in a generational rut .
In March 2018, home ownership was at its lowest in almost 70 years. Since then the median price has almost doubled and rent is up by a quarter.
Stuff Holly Tipene s mother and grandmother spent their entire lives in rentals. Until recently, she had resigned herself to also never owning a home, and having nothing to pass on to her three children. Tipene works as a housekeeper at a Waikato University hall of residence and her husband Kere Tipene is a delivery driver, but despite both working full time and having enough to pay rent, the ability to build a deposit and secure a mortgage was always beyond reach.
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