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'Sleeping rough is a lifestyle choice here'
Briefly in the news from Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate on Friday, July 4:
* Police Minister Mark Mitchell says people who sleep rough in Rotorua are making ‘a lifestyle choice’ and should be moved away from shopfronts by five new beat cops — ‘for their own safety’. See more in The Lead below the paywall fold and in the podcast above.
* A Salvation Army expert on homelessness, who has been to Rotorua to investigate, says there aren’t enough homes and these people, who deserve dignity and Mark Mitchell’s empathy, are not ‘choosing homelessness’. See more in…
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