Hamilton’s emergency housing network.

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Btw, Rotorua is a lot worse off than Hamilton. Emergency housing motels wise, that is.

That's right.   An aspect that is overlooked is that when the pandemic struck there was a need to get homeless people into accommodation where they could be safe, traceable and vaccinated.   At the same time of course there were tourist accommodation providers suddenly with no tourists.  It made sense to use the vacant motels and hotels for emergency accommodation and this saved many tourism businesses from insolvency.    Now tourist towns like Rotorua are suffering unintended consequences,    but I believe that on balance  it was a worthwhile tactic and saved many lives.