Emergency motel housing: Urbano Bistro Cafe & Restaurant owner Richard Sewell tells of impact
15 May, 2021 08:00 PM
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Urbano Bistro Cafe & Restaurant owner Richard Sewell says he d love to hear some people getting emergency housing say thanks. Photo / Andrew Warner
Urbano Bistro Cafe & Restaurant owner Richard Sewell says he d love to hear some people getting emergency housing say thanks. Photo / Andrew Warner
Smack in the middle of Rotorua s emergency housing providers on what has become known as MSD Mile on Fenton St is an upmarket award-winning restaurant. For 39 years its owner, Richard Sewell, has run successful businesses in the city and despite going to hell and back in the last six months as a result of what he believes is trouble caused by some people around his business, it is doing well and is not going anywhere.
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Rotorua homeless public meeting gets heated, more than 350 people pack venue
16 Mar, 2021 05:00 AM
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Meeting of Glenholme residents to discuss the homeless issue.
Angry Rotorua residents at a public meeting have sent a firm message they want to put a stop to bringing out-of-town homeless to the city. Homeless worker Tiny Deane disputes claims this is happening and told the meeting he wasn t inviting homeless from other areas or making money housing them in motels.
Visions of a Helping Hand founder Tiny Deane addresses the meeting. Photo / Andrew Warner
More than 350 people turned out to the Arawa Bowling Club last night for a public meeting hosted by Rotorua MP Todd McClay to talk about issues faced by Glenholme due to people staying in nearby emergency housing.
A report on a public meeting held in Rotorua, Aotearoa/New Zealand about homelessness.
On 15th March approximately 350 people gathered at a Bowling Club in the Glenholme area of Rotorua. They congregated for a meeting sponsored by local [Centre-Right oppositiion] National Party MP Todd McClay. The purpose of the hui was to discuss the problem of homelessness in the city. Well, that was the supposed intention. Instead what resulted was a well-orchestrated exercise in white-haired, overwhelmingly white-skinned rabble raising.
Any capable con-artist or dodgy gambler knows the way to ensure you can stack a deck of cards is simply to choose the cards that comprise that deck from the outset and let the rest of it take care of itself, while you eventually scoop up the winnings. McClay, looking like a Ken doll tossed in the reject bin, began proceedings by saying that he had decided not to permit the input of any Government agencies at the meeting. His supposed reason being “I want thi