Rotorua Chamber of Commerce survey: Businesses say no to housing homeless in CBD
Rotorua Chamber of Commerce survey: Businesses say no to housing homeless in CBD 11 Feb, 2021 05:00 PM 4 minutes to read The Lava Bar and X Base Backpackers on Arawa St. Photo / Kelly Makiha A proposal to convert the Lava Bar and X Base Backpackers into housing for the homeless has been met with strong resistance from Rotorua businesses. A Chamber of Commerce survey has found 89 per cent of the 365 people who had responded as of Wednesday afternoon did not want the plans to go ahead. A private property investor from Auckland, Peter Bidois of Torin Holdings, has told the Rot...