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.
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National MP Todd McClay calls public meeting to address Rotorua s homeless issue
25 Feb, 2021 06:00 PM
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National MP Todd McClay is holding a public meeting to address Rotorua s homelessness problem. Photo / File
Rotorua Daily Post
Families too nervous to let their children walk to school because of neighbouring issues with crime and loitering has provoked a public meeting by Rotorua s National MP.
Todd McClay hopes it will give residents the opportunity to voice their concerns over homelessness, social disorder and crime.
McClay said residents of Glenholme, Fenton Park and the CBD were becoming increasingly agitated with people using Fenton St and surrounding areas to deal with Rotorua s housing shortage.