About this episode

The episode discusses the backlash against the Ministry of Social Development's performance measures on emergency housing and its impact on homelessness.

Following revelations the Ministry of Social Development had implemented performance measures related to cutting the number of people in emergency housing, political reporter Lauren Crimp takes a look at the reaction and asks the top boss whether they've left more people sleeping on the streets. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details

People in this episode

Host: Lauren Crimp

Topics covered

• emergency housing
• political reaction
• social policy
• homelessness
• performance measures

Keywords

• emergency housing
• political reaction
• homelessness
• Ministry of Social Development
• performance measures

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ministry of Social Development

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