The government has announced its new top-priority approach for families with children in emergency housing, while signalling a stricter approach for those accessing it.
The Priority One category will mean families with dependent children in emergency housing for longer than 12 weeks would automatically move to the top of the waitlist, from April. Bishop said the policy was expected to prioritise about 800 of the roughly 3000 families on the waitlist.
However, Upston signalled it would come alongside a stricter approach to allowing people into emergency housing in the first place.
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For anyone looking at the election promise to gut Kaianga Ora and also clear the waiting list for emergency housing, wondering how they could do both, now you have your answer. Let less people onto the emergency housing waiting list.
Yeah sounds very much like resolving the strain on emergency housing by letting more people be homeless.
They asked in the article:
Asked if it would mean more people living on the streets, she said “the really important thing here is what’s the end goal, so the end goal is we don’t want children in motels”.
However, she said she would not be comfortable if more children ended up homeless under her watch.
“I’m not saying it is going to be perfect, what I am saying is that we will have fewer children in motels and that is what we are out to achieve.”
Basically “we don’t like it, but yes, people will become homeless”.
Fewer children in motels, more in cars; winning!
Wait so she said she specifically wants to take accommodation away from children ?
This is nightmarish.
It’s the weird belief that if they cut support then the government saves money. Instead of recognising that it just moves the cost into (among other places) the healthcare sector, one that is struggling already, which they recognise because they promised more funding in healthcare.
You’re right. It’s like how our high rates of child respiratory illness translate into a long term burden on health system. But kids being homeless is a worse version. Unless their aim is to save money by the kids actually dying??
I don’t know if social macroeconomics is a discipline but if it is then governments should have to take mandatory classes in it.
We really did have a giant douche VS turd sandwich election, didn’t we?
