Another day, another list of complaints about social housing in Rotorua Motels…
Rotorua emergency housing motels ads targeted Facebook users out of town
Some motel owners providing emergency housing in Rotorua have directly targeted potential out-of-town clients through social media.
A document shared by RotoruaNZ with Rotorua Lakes Council – aimed at informing “messaging” to the Government in March this year – shows examples of emergency housing motel advertisements on Facebook directly targeted at people in Tauranga and Whakatāne.
The advertising in Tauranga and Whakatāne was live at the time the document was produced.
Titles for some ads included “emergency Winz motel”, and “motel room for emergency accommodation” and listed their price as free.
…firstly, let’s acknowledge that social housing in Motels is a bandaid on a haemorrhaging social problem that no one cares about.
NZers don’t care about homelessness because that would ask questions of how rigged the home ownership casino is in this country, and with many in the middle class benefitting from home ownership, we don’t like to face the reality of how unequal our society has become.
But the sec and issue I don’t get is that ion all these Motels are so against housing the homeless and that it’s destroying their tourism reputation, then the Motels can simply say, ‘enough no more’ and stop bookings from the Social Agencies can’t they?
But they don’t.
Why don’t they?
Because they are making obscene profits from these contracts aren’t they?
Isn’t it outrageous they keep taking the bookings and keep taking the money and yet keep complaining?
If Rotorua Motels want their tourism reputation back, stop taking bookings from the social welfare agencies.
We all know they won’t.
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I’m picking the Rotorua District Council know what these motels are up to as well, and the government, hence the change of mayor and hence their current review of the Fenton St problems, to try and stop them doing that.
Reading about vagrancy issues in Christchurch this morning, one thing is very clear; the homeless problem will only worsen until the government, and only the government can do this, start mass social housing builds, that is, not the business as usual cop out we see from Labour.
Housing, as bad as it is now and it’s appalling, will continue to corrode society until we have a government who is willing to deal with it! And the thing of it is, a government WILL have to confront this problem one of these days! They cannot kick the can down the road much further. Pity is wasn’t Labour!
“Housing, as bad as it is now and it’s appalling, will continue to corrode society until we have a government who is willing to deal with it! And the thing of it is, a government WILL have to confront this problem one of these days! They cannot kick the can down the road much further. Pity is wasn’t Labour!”
Insightful summary XRAY.
People go into business to make a profit .If you have someone who will rent a unit constantly and at a high rate why would you turn it away and risk a vacancy due to covid our weather and less profit. It is the system that is broken not the motel owners.
Poverty and homelessness are living in cars and under bridges, National Party Inc.
God bless motels.
Tee hee hee
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