Homeless crisis costing Govt $100,000 a day for motels
The Government has spent an average of almost $100,000 per night housing the homeless in motels this year.
The cost of the emergency housing grant in the first three months this year was more than $8.8 million - which works out to an average of $98,167 a night.
The $8.8 million is well above the Government's expectations.
As part of an overall $345 million investment in emergency housing, the Government only budgeted $2 million per year for an estimated 1400 emergency housing grants - which pay for urgent motel stays for families in need.
But it has well and truly blown that budget in the first three months of this year - the Ministry of Social Development has handed out 9218 emergency housing grants.
........作者: auckland.clark 时间: 2017-11-4 11:12:58