Visions of a Helping Hand chief executive Tiny Deane.
Photo: LDR / Andrew Warner / Rotorua Daily Post
Visions of a Helping Hand chief executive Tiny Deane also says a petition calling for action on homelessness and city safety unfairly blames homeless people for the issue, something the petitioner refutes.
Police say they deal with issues with rough sleepers or emergency accommodation users in the same way they deal with any residential issue and continue to work with partner agencies to find solutions to issues related to homelessness.
It comes as a petition launched last week called for urgent action on homelessness and related disorder in the city.
Police need to step up in inner-city violence, not council - advocate
13 Jan, 2021 12:42 AM
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Visions of a Helping Hand chief executive Tiny Deane. Photo / File
A Rotorua advocate for the homeless says it s the police who need to step up to combat a perceived lack of safety in the city s CBD, not the council.
Visions of a Helping Hand chief executive Tiny Deane also says a petition calling for action on homelessness and city safety unfairly blames homeless people for the issue, something the petitioner refutes.
Police say they deal with issues with rough sleepers or emergency accommodation users in the same way they deal with any residential issue and continue to work with partner agencies to find solutions to issues related to homelessness.
Rotorua Daily Post Year in Review: November 2020
8 Jan, 2021 07:50 PM
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Rotorua Daily Post
The Rotorua Daily Post is looking back at the stories of 2020. Here s what made headlines in November.
November 4
He used to clean the windscreens of people s cars at traffic lights to make a few bucks, now the former Rotorua homeless man is cleaning windows for a real job.
Brian Bam Bam Mollgaard was a familiar sight either sitting on footpaths with an upturned cap politely begging for money or cleaning windscreens of cars stopped at traffic lights for coins.
But thanks to a Rotorua window cleaning business owner, Bam Bam now has a job and a fresh outlook on life.
Housing homeless in Tauranga motels costs millions in three months
20 Dec, 2020 05:02 PM
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Just over $2.5 million has been spent on emergency housing and special needs grants in Tauranga during the past three months and new figures reveal the number of people getting help is growing.
housing homeless Despite the overall cost dropping by $275,000 compared with the previous quarter, the number of people getting accommodation in places such as motels and grants to help pay for necessities has gone up significantly from 1054 grants in the quarter ending June 2020 to 1469 for the quarter ending September 2020.
Rotorua still continues to outstrip any other Bay of Plenty area with a total spend coming to nearly $4.7m in the quarter ending September 2020.