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Letters: More denials on origins of homeless people in Rotorua

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2 Apr, 2021 09:19 PM2 mins to read

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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern addresses issues with emergency housing in Rotorua. Photo / Andrew Warner

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern addresses issues with emergency housing in Rotorua. Photo / Andrew Warner

More talk and denial that homeless people are being exported to Rotorua (News, April 1).

If all those residing in Rotorua motels are from Rotorua, what suddenly happened to their previous homes?

We haven't heard of mass evictions or lots of buildings being demolished.

Alternatively, why haven't premises vacated by them been readvertised?

Labour MP Tamati Coffey is reported as saying concerns and complaints of locals are based on experience and observation rather than research and analysis.

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In my view, observation is an effective research tool.

Why not have an independent source survey motels requesting the previous address and length of stay of all MSD clients?

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern states it's "not so much where the people are coming from".... but the "need to make sure they have housing".

I believe it is a matter of where they came from.

Why should Rotorua house all those currently homeless based here?

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Paddi Hodgkiss
Rotorua

Don't close the book on Pike River

Government - for the people, by the people, of the people.

Pike River is about us, not the Government, and I cannot believe that the people of New Zealand wish to have the matter brushed so lightly under the carpet.

We owe the families of that terrible accident closure, they need to see for themselves exactly what happened.

They also need the opportunity to lay to rest the remains of their loved ones.

How dare the Government close the book.

Who agrees that this is a travesty and must not be allowed to happen?

Jim Adams
Rotorua

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