A leaky water cylinder created a “huge mouldy hole” in the floor of the family-owned home, reducing the shower to a trickle. “It was just wear and tear over the years. It started to leak . It got worse and worse and worse. We ended up getting so used to it that we chucked a big huge bucket under it. Our kids even got used to emptying that bucket.” Godinet-Sameulu’s husband is a builder and replaced rotten floorboards beneath the shower, but the family couldn’t afford to make more substantive repairs at the house. “It was a lack of knowledge . and resources,” she said.
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Onokura and Ana
Ono and Ana want only the very best for their seven children but something seemingly as simple as finding a house has been a monumental challenge for them.They are part of an ethnic group that experiences homelessness or severe housing deprivation at a rate four to five times that of European New Zealanders, according to research from the University of Otago and published on the HUD website.
This is the second in a series of three stories putting a human face to New Zealand’s housing crisis as we introduce whānau who have been supported by Visionwest through their struggle with homelessness.
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Five per cent of New Zealand houses lack at least one of six basic amenities including drinkable tap water, electricity, a toilet, and a kitchen sink, a new report from the He Kāinga Oranga Housing and Health Research Programme at the University of Otago, Wellington has found
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More than 4 per cent of pre-schoolers lived in homes without drinkable tap water at the time of the 2018 Census.
About one in every 25 children aged four or younger was living in a home without drinkable tap water at the time of the 2018 Census, a new study shows. Researchers from the He Kāinga Oranga Housing and Health Research Programme at the University of Otago, Wellington found that overall 5.2 per cent (78,900) of private homes lacked access to at least one of six basic amenities. Lack of drinkable tap water was the most common problem, affecting 3.2 per cent (48,087) of the homes. That was followed by 1.7 per cent (25,719) of homes lacking electricity, then 1.1 per cent (17,148) without cooking facilities, 1 per cent (15,711) without a kitchen sink, and 1 per cent (14,553) without a toilet, or a bath or a shower.