Kainga Ora, Swarbrick pressures Luxon to resign

[Lilith7]

Except, there is one thing lots of people are forgetting. It is unlikely to be families who are evicted. Single tenants are usually the ones responsible for most of the unpleasantness among communities. And usually because they have mental health issues. We see this already among our homeless population, and it seems a little ridiculous to have one team of social workers trying to home these individuals, while another are seeking to unhome them.

We need residential care in some form or another for the independent but mentally ill. Not a rest home, not a prison, not a hospital, but something that combines aspects of these. Managed, purposefully designed, and accessible, so that those challenging souls can be housed, and genuinely needy families can move into the state and social housing that they so desperately need.

And it is possible. We have a set of units close to our village, for transitional housing, with an on site manager, supported by active involvement from service clubs and other vetted capable organisations. We watched it start to operate with some trepidation, but frankly, in the years since it started the problems have been so few as to be meaningless.

We have more issues here, with our own challenging tenants. We need more builds specifically for those who might otherwise be unable to be housed because of their behaviour issues...

Had those in charge at the time done things properly with adequate buildings & sufficient trained staff, rather than allowing 'care in the community' to instead rapidly become 'homeless people with mental illnesses' we might not be in such dire straits now. Bastard politicians presumably didn't want to spend the money to set it up properly.

And in a similar way, politicians also closed Hanmer & other rehabs which were doing brilliant work so that now, when the addiction problem has worsened, there just aren't enough of them.