Move-On Orders Will Hurt Youth Homelessness Response
Move-on orders don’t end homelessness. They push vulnerable rangatahi further from help, safety and the support they desperately need.
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Homes turned into rules – After criminalising the homeless they created, National now comes for state tenants
The Government is increasing rents, tightening housing support and criminalising homelessness while ministers claim thousands in housing allowances themselves.
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Greens Push Housing Protection for State Care Youth
The Greens say young people leaving state care should never be abandoned into homelessness while emergency housing systems collapse around them.
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What would Jesus do? Criminalising homelessness after causing the homelessness is an obscenity
After cutting housing and social support, the Government now wants police powers to move on and punish the homeless its own policies helped create.
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Kāinga Ora is now a sad joke looking for a punchline
Kāinga Ora is being accused of abandoning its public housing purpose as developments are scrapped, properties sold off and homelessness deepens.
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Greens Slam Luxon Homelessness Crackdown
The Greens say Luxon is turning homelessness into a policing issue after policies they argue pushed more people onto the streets.
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Labour Slams National’s Homelessness Crackdown
Labour says National’s crackdown on rough sleeping won’t solve homelessness, it will just push vulnerable people out of city centres and into the suburbs.
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Boarding House Bill Passes First Reading
After the horror of Loafers Lodge, Labour says it’s time unsafe boarding houses were dragged out of the shadows and held accountable.
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Policing Amendment Bill Sparks Surveillance Fears
Police say the new powers are about safety. Critics say they open the door to surveillance abuse with fewer protections for Māori youth and the homeless.
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The horror that is MSD
When MSD starts calling homelessness a “narrative”, it’s not a bureaucratic slip. It’s a window into the contempt at the heart of a welfare system that punishes desperation.
