Bryce Edwards: Labour’s motel housing shame

The Labour Government has now spent over $1.2bn on housing people in motels and emergency facilities. This is an indictment on a government that refuses to build enough state houses for vulnerable people who are the biggest victims of the housing crisis. But what’s more, the staggering $1m spent each day on emergency housing has also been a social disaster, the scale of which is becoming too apparent for the Government to ignore.

Cam Slater: The True Cost of Not Solving Homelessness

They’ve blown $788M shoving people into motels, in just over two years

When this Government was elected one of their main promises was to address and rectify the housing market, including solving the claimed homelessness crisis. What no one knew back then was what that actually entailed. But now we do.

The Government has hosed the thick end of a billion dollars down the grateful throats of several moteliers by shoving the homeless into motels.