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.