TONY WALL CHRISTEL YARDLEY/STUFF Motels in Rotorua are now filled with emergency housing clients instead of tourists.
Government agencies and social service providers deny they are shipping homeless people to Rotorua to fill motels left empty by the Covid crisis. But there is evidence that many of those in emergency housing in the tourist town are from other centres. Tony Wall investigates.
Allaneice Tautari and Temple Haimona-Young feel like refugees in their own country.
Originally from Hawke s Bay, over the past month the young couple – expecting their first child in May – have been homeless in Wellington and now Rotorua.