Thousands of fewer kids living in motels

Tama Potaka released:

The Government has achieved its target to reduce the number of households in emergency housing motels by 75 per cent five years early, Associate Housing Minister Tama Potaka says.

In just one year it has dropped from 3,141 households to 591. That’s 2500 fewer families living in motels.

“While the previous government only knew where about 50 per cent of those leaving emergency housing were going, our Government has done the work to significantly improve on this. As a result, we know that about 80 per cent of those leaving emergency housing have moved to social, transitional, or private housing with some kind of government support such as the Accommodation Supplement. 

Emergency housing should be for emergencies. But under Labour it became a way of life for too many.