There’s no need to make emergency housing harder – it’s hard enough already
The Spinoff Daily, Monday April 22
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Today on The Spinoff: A list of transport projects Wellington could actually deliver in the next 10-15 years, the axe hovers over a crucial longitudinal study, and Taylor Swift’s new album, reviewed.
But first: No one is more fed up with the state of emergency housing than the people living in it.
“I get it, Minister. I really do. You want us out of emergency housing. And believe me, so do we. I have been living in emergency accommodation in a hotel in central Auckland for six months and counting. That’s despite the fact that, as a disabled person with children who recently fled violence, my need for social housing is classified by MSD as the highest priority possible. I consider myself one of the lucky ones, though: a grandmother I met recently has been waiting in a motel with her mokopuna with special needs at the top of the so-called priority waitlist for eighteen months. Believe me, we’re more fed up with it than you.”
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