カテゴリー: Homelessness
My sister Susie Younger, who has died aged 88, spent much of her life helping poor and disadvantaged people in South Korea; she had moved there from Britain in the late 1950s.Working mainly with the Roman Catholic church in the city of Daegu, she helpe…
Tourist hub plagued by lack of homes, surging rents and traveller influx provides ‘starkest’ picture of country’s property crunchWhen Merlin Traçable finishes work at a ski rental shop in Queenstown, New Zealand, he looks for a place to park his van.Tr…
Motels used to temporarily house homeless people were found to often be unclean and unsafeNew Zealand’s emergency housing system that temporarily places homeless people in motel units is breaching human rights, with residents reporting filthy and unsaf…
Nearly 10,000 New Zealanders are in emergency accommodation in motels, as the cost of living soars and public housing wait lists blow outKristina Reid is trying to make the best of a bad situation. The walls of the motel room she has called home for th…
At the start of the pandemic, New Zealand made headlines for appearing to eliminate homelessness, but the story is more complicatedFranki began living on Auckland’s streets at age 15, shortly after his father died in 2018. He hunted for secret spots to…
City records coldest January day in nearly a decade while temperatures across month plummet 2-6C below normalIndia’s capital, New Delhi, is shivering through an unusually harsh bout of winter cold, blamed for killing scores of homeless people and leavi…
Labour-led government has pledged $100m to keep 1,200 motel rooms available for the homeless for a year but obstacles to cementing gains remainCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIt was an unexpected outcome of the strict lockdo…
For millions of young people, coronavirus restrictions have made access to food, water and shelter even more precariousTimothy, a teenager on the streets of Mombasa, wonders how he will eat. “Rich people can stay home … because they have a store well s…
List has more than doubled in size to 14,500 in two years since Jacinda Ardern promised to fix crisis The waiting list for state housing in New Zealand has hit a record high as the government struggles to cope with the booming number of homeless people…
The government dreamed of a metropolis that is a beacon to all but the pace of change has left some behind and others disillusionedTāmaki Makaurau, the Māori name for Auckland which can be translated as “the place desired by many”, is living up to its …