Money Talks: New Zealand’s homelessness problem getting worse.

Homelessness and housing have become two of the biggest issues in the lead up to New Zealand’s parliamentary elections. That is because the country has more homeless people per capita than any other developed country in the world. It is being driven by extraordinary house prices, with one in every one hundred Kiwis considered homeless. From New Zealand, Kim Vinnell reports.
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New Zealand’s ‘working poor’ and the push to understand how many are struggling

New Zealand’s ‘working poor’ and the push to understand how many are struggling THOMAS MANCH Last updated 05:00, May 16 2018 Wellington City Mission is increasingly providing food security to working families. You could work all week and have only $20 to show for it.
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Homeless in New Zealand

Once a pioneer of the social welfare state, New Zealand now has over 40,000 people who are homeless, forced to live in their cars and in garages as a result of rapid house price and rent rises and a shortage of social housing. Al Jazeera correspondent Tarek Bazley visits South Auckland and meets two families – one with six children living in a derelict garage, the other who lived with three teenagers for months in their car – and charts the country’s fall from and egalitarian society to one with deep divisions of wealth
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