Luxon will simply arrest the homeless he is making homeless?

Prime Minister Luxon confirms action plan on ‘move-on’ orders for homeless, announcement soon

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has confirmed an action plan has been created for “move on orders” after a meeting between Auckland Minister Simeon Brown and mayor Wayne Brown.

“Move on orders” would enable police or maybe a council officer to order a rough sleeper to leave for a period of time because of “anti-social behaviour”.

With a new convention centre, the City Rail Link set to open and cruise ships arriving over summer, Luxon told Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking he wants the CBD to be seen as a safe place.

Luxon confirmed a meeting took place last week between the Auckland mayor and the minister to create an action plan on what happens to the rough sleepers once they are moved on.

He said he expected an announcement to be made by Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith before Christmas.

There are many things that manage to symbolise the venal corruption of this Government.

The bastardisation of the school lunches programme into cheap slop.

The IREX Ferry fiasco.

The gutting of public health by a smiling man child.

Smashing Labour’s infrastructure pipeline that created a cascade collapse across the economy.

Desperately needed public housing standing empty.

$12billion for military helicopters while knee capping pay parity.

The total capitulation to corporate interests via the Regulatory Standards Act

Undermining workers safety while the Pike River Mine movie opened.

The totally needless and counter productive hate fest spawned by the Treaty Principles Referendum.

The war on climate legislation as NZ gets hit by extreme weather.

The cutting of benefits for people while giving the worst industries hundreds of millions in corporate welfare.

Refusing compensation to survivors of state abuse if they have gone to prison.

Refusing to recognise Palestine and siding with the war criminals.

And the final example that manages to symbolise the venal corruption of this Government, is their entire response to the homelessness problem that they have created.

Everyone in the homelessness sector told the Government that their revised thresholds for Emergency Housing would create a tsunami of homelessness.

Everyone in the homelessness sector said cutting $20million from food banks would make those homeless more desperate.

Everyone in the homelessness sector said cutting back on community outreach programmes for the homeless would mean those homeless had no access to off ramps via wrap around services.

Number of under 16s sleeping rough ‘much larger than we’d first anticipated’

Young people are sleeping on the streets and in cars as a youth homelessness support service says the problem is getting worse.

Auckland-based Kick Back has released its first State of the Street report, which it says is an SOS to the government and community at large.

“And what we’ve observed is children couch-surfing, sleeping in and out of transitional housing or hostels, moving around constantly,” general manager Aaron Hendry said.

The report comes up with hard figures, the first Kick Back has been able to show in a report like this.

It revealed 22% of young people were sleeping rough when they first sought support.

Couch-surfers made up 22%, 12% were sleeping in cars while 27% were living in housing classed as unstable, overcrowded or insecure.

The report said 62% of young people turning to the organisation for help were under 19 years old.

Sixteen and 17 year olds made up 20%, and 17% were aged 15 or under.

Despite everyone telling them this, National fucking did it all anyway resulting in an obscene spike in homelessness to the point their poverty, addiction and mental health issues explode shamefully across our streets in a way that embarrasses us in front of the Tourists.

So embarrassed are they by the realities of their policy cruelty they now put forward a solution to simply arrest the homeless.

Firstly, shouldn’t National, ACT and NZF voters be confronted with the grim reality of their social policies as they walk around?

Secondly, shouldn’t the Government be heavily, heavily, heavily criticised for promoting criminalisation of the poverty they themselves  have manufactured?

Where does Chris Luxon, who is one of the richest Politicians in NZ, who got an $8,000 rates reduction for his million dollar batch on Waiheke and who has personally profited $600,000 from flipping property after he changed the rules,  that Chris Luxon, where does he get off arresting the homeless that he has created?

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