Homelessness – What can the Mayor do?
Every Mayor wants to do something they will be remembered for. Could Auckland’s new one become famous for ending chronic homelessness?
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Lifewise delighted with investment into Housing First
Social development agency Lifewise are delighted that Housing First is being recognised as a preferred approach to ending homelessness, under…
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Caught up in safety nets – Lifewise
There are still nearly 18,000 people in Auckland on the verge of homelessness.
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Rebuilding the Country we grew up in – Little’s Big Task ahead
On 20 August 2007, National’s new leader, John Key, made a stirring speech to the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Contractors Federation. In it, he lambasted the then-Clark-led Labour government;
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Foot in mouth award – Bill English, for his recent “Flat Earth” comment in Parliament
It appears that Finance Minister, Bill English did not get the memo from Dear Leader Key’s office: “Dont get arrogant!”
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Park-up in Wellington – People speaking against the scourge of homelessness
Wellington, NZ, 26 June – It was a cold and stormy rainy night… No, really, it was – cold, wet, and miserable. The kind of night that a growing number of homeless people – including families – are having to put up with regularly in once-egalitarian Aotearoa-New Zealand.
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Bright ideas are good, but not good enough – Lifewise
…these efforts only seem like solutions because they temporarily fix a visible symptom of homelessness. None of them can make a problem as complex as homelessness go away. Most countries in the Western world have struggled with it since the ’80s; thirty years is too long to not have a solution in sight.
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MEDIA WATCH: Why is Paula Bennett media-shy all of a sudden?
According to John Campbell, Bennett refused to appear on Radio NZ’s Checkpoint for an interview.
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MEDIAWATCH: On homelessness, class eugenics, and middle class sensibilities
… as if the right to have a family and raise children to be good citizens of this country is now the sole privilege of the affluent.
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The lonely man on the street – Lifewise
When John* came to Lifewise in March, he had been homeless for nearly 30 years. He had moved to Auckland looking for work, hoping to start a new life but had spent nearly 20 years doing odd jobs, looking for a place of his own, moving from one boarding home to another.