My Final Word: The Government Created This Homelessness Crisis
This week, Martyn examines New Zealand’s worsening homelessness crisis and asks whether Government policy is making the problem worse.
Homelessness organisations warned that tightening emergency housing eligibility would leave more people sleeping rough. Now, as homelessness rises, new proposals focus on policing those living on the streets rather than addressing the causes.
Martyn argues that cuts to emergency housing, food banks, and community outreach have created predictable consequences—and that arresting vulnerable people is not a solution.
How should New Zealand respond to homelessness?
In solidarity, the revolution continues.
I have no idea how our “Christian PM” rationalises our homeless humanitarian crisis. His govt. created a financial economy that has taken incomes from already vulnerable families and left them to live on the street! Now he wants to fine or imprison them for being in the way! Is he telling himself that they should get another job – when there are so few jobs out there? He doesn’t appear to have a brain that joins the dots. He is cruel, sadistic, selfish and greedy. Mr Photo-Shoot is not interested in what happens to the homeless families or bringing in a fix to give them back their dignity and pride. Folk, we have a smug “monster” for a PM who couldn’t give a stuff and can’t see that he is a very large part of the reality that has resulted in NZ’s ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’. In time, it will come back and bite him!