The report shows that:
·$550 million total housing support provided in the March 2017 quarter (89 days)
·Helped 1800 households into homes
·4865 people on the housing register – up 2 per cent on last quarter
·9218 emergency housing Special Needs Grants paid to 2616 clients – total spent $8.8 million
·Around 66,000 social houses across New Zealand
·$20.4 million was spent on Accommodation Supplement payments per week
·2,616 individual clients and $8.8 million was spent on the emergency housing special needs grant for the last quarter
Moira Lawler of Lifewise Trust talks to Newstalk ZB about what these latest figures mean: http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/04/homelessness-on-the-rise-in-new-zealand.html
The new Social Housing Quarterly Report can be found at http://www.msd.govt.nz/documents/about-msd-and-our-work/work-programmes/social-housing/msd-social-housing-quarterly-report-march-2017.pdf
The latest figures on the Housing Register can be found at www.housing.msd.govt.nz/information-for-housing-providers/register
More comment in media with a call for building more social housing instead.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11842084
