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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Pasifika children living below poverty line.
In August a report released by the Children’s Commissioner highlight that approximately 270,000 New Zealand children live in poverty and 40% are Pasifika children. John Pulu finds out how our people are coping.
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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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Sleepers of Queen St.
Documentary/Interview made with 3 homeless people in Queen Street Auckland New Zealand.
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Without A Home (2017 / NZ Documentary)
OFFICIALLY SELECTED | 2017 Sose International Film Festival — One in every 100 people are homeless in New Zealand today. The issue itself has become a news topic that has saturated nationwide headlines for many months throughout 2016, yet the few cases that are broadcast on television and shared online are happening in metropolitan centers – Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch.
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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Inside Child poverty
2011 TV Guide People’s Choice Award Winning Documentary on the impact neoliberal economics has had on the health and wellbeing of New Zealand children. By Bryan Bruce.
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Why New Zealand Has Child Poverty
This is an excerpt from TV 3s Inside New Zealand Child Poverty- A Special Report
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