New Data Highlights Urgent Need for A Coordinated Response to Homelessness Across the Nation
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The Salvation Army sees a need for a coordinated response to the growing scale and severity of homelessness in Aotearoa, with new national data confirming a sharp rise in housing insecurity and distress – a crisis that is being compounded by policy and service delivery issues. The findings are drawn from the latest survey conducted […]

The Salvation Army’s second six-monthly survey of housing support providers, along with other data related to homelessness, reveals alarming trends: Homelessness is increasing across nearly all communities, with no area reporting a decline. Access to emergency housing is becoming increasingly restricted, with a 386% rise since August 2024 in Ministry of Social Development (MSD) rejections citing that people had ‘contributed to their own homelessness’.

NZ homelessness worst in history.