Latest / The Kākā by Bernard Hickey
The Govt's housing cuts come home to roost
Aotearoa’s decades-long housing crisis is now deep into another winter of discontent.
Last week’s events show the Government’s cuts to state house building and emergency housing in motels through 2024 have come home to roost even harder in 2026 than seen in the winter of discontent in 2016, when Te Puea Memorial Marae in Māngere opened its doors to Auckland’s homeless in the absence of Government action. It became an election issue the next year.
Add in this years ‘moving on’ orders going through Parliament that will criminalize rough sleepers as young as 14 years old, and effective cuts to…
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