10 bungalows set to make way for 18 homes in Westown, New Plymouth stuff.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stuff.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Government has added 1,000 more transitional housing places as promised under the Aotearoa New Zealand Homelessness Action Plan (HAP), launched one...
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
In December 2020, there were 526 families in Taranaki on the waiting list for public housing, the Ministry of Social Development’s (MSD) Public Housing Register. Five years ago the numbers were relatively small. In December 2015, there were just 33 families on the register in the New Plymouth District. As of December 2020, there were 386. A staggering 1070 per cent increase. Both South Taranaki and Stratford have seen similar increases. Many on MSD’s Register are currently housed in emergency accommodation – most commonly motels. We have non-governmental organisations that do incredible work assisting people to find accommodation, but they are overwhelmed. They are seeing families who have never been homeless struggling to find somewhere to live.
Work to replace old New Plymouth state homes set to begin in September stuff.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stuff.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Mount Maunganui man in tears over Tauranga City Council's elder housing plan nzherald.co.nz - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nzherald.co.nz Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.