File photo: Getty ImagesA new study shows a quarter of New Zealand renters who left their homes did so because their landlord forced them out. Eviction as Katrina explained it: 'Makes you feel basically like a bit of dirt on the bottom of someone's shoe'." She said those interviewed described ending up in far worse living conditions than their previous homes - often bunking in with friends in overcrowded houses. Chisholm said people described their children needing hospitalisation for respiratory conditions because of poor living conditions after being evicted. Otago University senior research fellow Dr Lucy Telfar-Barnard analysed data from Stats NZ's 2018 General Social Survey.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 18, 2021 21:22 UTC