The Good Shop van in South Auckland. Photo: RNZAlmost a year after launching their Good Shop mobile home shopping service, the Salvation Army says demand is booming, and they are looking for opportunities to expand it. The Good Shop project manager Jodi Hoare. The Salvation Army is one of a number of social services lobbying government to introduce a maximum cap on interest rates lenders can charge. "Affordability assessments weren't being done [by high interest lenders], clients are being given a weekly rate of repayments they really can't afford once you took their weekly cost of living.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 30, 2019 06:45 UTC