Heather du Plessis-Allan: Government must deal with appalling behaviour of emergency housing residents in motels
15 May, 2021 05:00 PM
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One of the problems is the sheer concentration of people in emergency housing in small areas. Photo / File
One of the problems is the sheer concentration of people in emergency housing in small areas. Photo / File
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There was a sad twist in the otherwise happy story of 3-year-old Axle who survived a night in the Gisborne bush alone. Axle and his family - it transpired - were homeless earlier this year, living in a tent.
They had been in an emergency housing motel, but it was a bad situation with drugs and alcohol and people fighting and smashing things all the time, and Axle s mum says she didn t want her kid around that . A tent was preferable.