The relocation grant will be available to prospective social housing tenants from Monday and is designed to ease pressure on housing in the city. More than 130 people had already expressed an interest in taking up the grant and moving to the regions, Social Housing Minister Paula Bennett said today. The scheme, announced in January, was originally targeted at people on the social housing register. The size of the voluntary grant would depend on how far people were travelling, the size of their family, and how many belongings they had. It was extended to homeless people last month as the Government went into damage control over its handling of housing problems in New Zealand.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 17, 2016 05:37 UTC