Watch the full Local Focus interview for Wendy Schollum's views on the housing crisis and living costs, and our less important quickfire questions
Hastings District Councillor Wendy Schollum is defending her seat in the Havelock North-Hastings ward.
Schollum, a mother of two young children, says her children give her the
courage to run for election again.
"I was a really good example of what happens with young people and Hawke's Bay. I grew up in Hastings, but when it came time for me to start my life, I had to leave Hawke's Bay for those opportunities, because they just didn't exist here at that time," she says in this Local Focus video.
She moved back to Hawke's Bay when she started to have a family.
