They had moved into an affordable housing project newly built by the Waiheke Community Housing Trust. Phillips is one of many long-term island residents who are finding themselves squeezed by a lack of affordable housing. Housing limboEstablished in 2016 with the intention of applying a band-aid to the island’s festering affordable housing sore, trustees of the Waiheke Community Housing Trust quickly got stuck into a three-unit project to accommodate nine people. LAWRENCE SMITH/Stuff Many long-term Waiheke Island residents are now relying on food banks to survive. Meanwhile, her centre’s social workers “dread hearing people’s increased need for housing accommodation because of the lack of ability to help”.

Source: Stuff November 20, 2022 00:25 UTC