{"id":18727,"date":"2020-05-27T10:10:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T01:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/27\/new-zealand-sheltered-its-homeless-during-covid-19-but-can-it-last"},"modified":"2020-05-27T10:10:52","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T01:10:52","slug":"new-zealand-sheltered-its-homeless-during-covid-19-but-can-it-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18727","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand sheltered its homeless during Covid-19 \u2013 but can it last?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labour-led government has pledged $100m to keep 1,200 motel rooms available for the homeless for a year but obstacles to cementing gains remain<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was an unexpected outcome of the strict lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19 in New Zealand: after one month rough sleeping appeared to have been all but eliminated in the country. Advocates said it was the closest New Zealand had come in modern times to ensuring everyone had shelter, with only \u201ca handful\u201d of people living on streets in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople who have never been housed are now temporarily in housing,\u201d said Chris Farrelly, the chief executive of Auckland City Mission, a social services charity in New Zealand\u2019s largest city. \u201cThey\u2019re saying to us, which they\u2019ve never said before, \u2018Please, can you keep me in this place?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/27\/new-zealand-sheltered-its-homeless-during-covid-19-but-can-it-last\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIt was an unexpected outcome of the strict lockdo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1069,895,914,56,958],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-homelessness","category-infectious-diseases","category-new-zealand","category-poverty"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18728,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18727\/revisions\/18728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}