The government is ramping up its efforts to stop using motels for emergency housing, announcing an extra 1000 transitional housing places will be ready by the end of the year.
Those staying in motels for more than seven days would have to start making a 25 percent of income payment for it, however, in a move the government said was bringing the accommodation into line with other forms of accommodation support.
Speaking at the opening of Auckland City Mission’s new safe haven service for homeless women, Housing Minister Megan Woods announced the government’s Aotearoa New Zealand Homelessness Action Plan.
The $300 million plan promised to reduce demand for emergency motel accommodation by adding 1000 new transitional housing places on top of the 1300 places introduced since the government was formed.
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Source: Radio New Zealand
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