Housing is a human right

When a rough sleeper died on the steps of a Manurewa church last winter, community workers in South Auckland doubled down to find homeless residents somewhere to sleep. Yvonne Tahana met with Rami Alrudaini to find out how LinkPeople have been supporting the community using the Housing First approach.

Reporter Chris Harrowell caught up with Rami Alrudaini from LinkPeople to find out more about how Housing First is housing people sleeping rough in Manurewa, as part of a community-wide response to homelessness in its town centre.

The Housing First model has taken around 1000 people off the street and put them into houses in Hamilton and Auckland in the last three years. Nicola Kean takes a look at the programme, and talks to some of those it’s helped.

Housing First Auckland is pleased to see ending homelessness and using Housing First is a priority for our new coalition Government. We congratulate the new Minister and Associate Minster of Housing and Urban Development, respectively, Hon Phil Twyford and Hon Jenny Salesa.

Ten years on from the 2007 ‘Responding to Homelessness in Aotearoa New Zealand’ edition of Parity magazine, the Australian Council to Homeless Persons produce has produced a 2017 anniversary edition. This publication is a point-in-time record of how we have responded to the increases in homelessness since the first publication was produced.