Hamilton’s emergency housing network.

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It’s not dark on Ulster St, it’s red and blue.

A constant stream of lights and sirens snake down the road, where emergency housing motels line both sides.
The Government paid $350 a night for the motel room, featuring mould, the smell of sewage, a smoking heat pump, and exposed bed springs.
Meanwhile, Waikato motels earned more than $100 million from the Government during the Covid-19 pandemic as the country grapples with a housing crisis and the soaring cost of living.

Figures show the Anglesea Motel and Conference Centre – the top earner in the region and second place nationally – was paid $11.7m to house 408 people over two years.

Where did these ferals use to live before this woke government decided to put them up in Motels? Because wherever that was they can go back again. The local supermarket I go to is opposite one of these Motels and from the carpark you can hear the foul language, shouting and screaming. This is just not good enough, Ms Ardern put them up in a Motel in your area and see what happens.

They used to live in the lower standard housing provided by what are colloquially known as slumlords. Then the government introduced all the new rules to improve housing. Those landlords that chose to stay in the business spent thousands of dollars upgrading their properties and now wish to have nice tenants (who now pay a lot more than they used to). And the landlords that didn't want to do that sold up and bailed out. So now there are fewer houses for tenants, and those that are available are too expensive for the ferals, and the landlords that own them don't need to let them to ferals because there are plenty of good tenants who won't trash their properties. So the leftovers than can't get a proper rental end up in government-provided motel rooms, that are not suitable for living in long term.

Yes, I know that's an over-generalisation but it's actually pretty accurate. The bottom line is that the bottom feeders no longer have anywhere to go. Before the "caring" government forced the property upgrades, at least there were houses for those people, even if they were seriously substandard. Now there aren't.