Background
There is an assumption that someone who is homeless got there by drug addiction or laziness. But due to Auckland’s ongoing housing crisis regular families are finding themselves living out of their cars, even as the parents maintain jobs and the children go to school. Lifewise have secured government funding to rent homes long term on behalf of those who are homeless and take on all the risks associated, but what they need is private landlords who are willing to let their homes to them.
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