{"id":41813,"date":"2022-02-19T03:00:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T18:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/19\/new-zealands-homeless-have-been-moved-off-the-streets-but-the-crisis-endures"},"modified":"2022-02-19T03:00:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T18:00:11","slug":"new-zealands-homeless-have-been-moved-off-the-streets-but-the-crisis-endures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41813","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s homeless have been moved off the streets, but the crisis endures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the start of the pandemic, New Zealand made headlines for appearing to eliminate homelessness, but the story is more complicated<\/p>\n<p>Franki began living on Auckland\u2019s streets at age 15, shortly after his father died in 2018. He hunted for secret spots to sleep \u2013 the backs of buildings and cemeteries. There were times when he was frightened; times when the older street community took him under their wings. <\/p>\n<p>He slept rough through New Zealand\u2019s first pandemic lockdown, wandering the quiet roads, struggling to find food. There were few housing options for a teenager \u2013 rentals would not accept him, nor many motels. In mid-2020, worried for his health, he walked through the doors of Lifewise, an organisation that supports people into accommodation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/19\/new-zealands-homeless-have-been-moved-off-the-streets-but-the-crisis-endures\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s streets at age 15, shortly after his father died in 2018. He hunted for secret spots to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"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":[41,895,697,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-homelessness","category-housing","category-new-zealand"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41813","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\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41814,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41813\/revisions\/41814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}