Emergency housing in Whangarei at crisis levels

Mar 9, 2016 | News

It has been a busy year for Te Tai Tokerau Emergency Housing and in the past two months the trust has received about 100 inquiries for accommodation. Usually it receives about 240 inquires over the entire year.

The trust’s operations manager, Ange Tepania, said one of the problems faced by the trust was moving people into state housing.

She said that about two years ago the trust could house about 75 per cent of tenants within six weeks in Housing New Zealand homes — now it’s less than 10 per cent.

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