Jane Matthews05:00, May 01 2021 GLENN JEFFREY/Stuff Taranaki has the lowest level of “housing poverty” in the country. That hasn’t stopped the number of people needing emergency housing doubling in one year. (File photo) At a point when a mother and son had nowhere else to go, New Plymouth's Jo Massey gave up her lounge and shed for months on end, so they had a roof over their heads. Massey offered the pair a place to sleep because she knew them, but she is one of the many doing their bit to alleviate the pain the lack of public, transitional and emergency housing is causing hundreds families in Taranaki.