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  #2914873 17-May-2022 10:34
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There is a very large percentage of the population that have $0.00 after paying for accommodation if they are fortunate enough to have accommodation.

 

Yes, rents are far too high for many important contributors to our society who may be on low incomes.  Supermarket workers (as an example) are essential, but not highly paid.

 

Unfortunately sometimes there is poverty of education (including education on money management) or poverty of 'common sense'.  We need more people getting alongside households like this to help give them the tools to life themselves up.





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Dynamic:

 

MikeB4:

 

There is a very large percentage of the population that have $0.00 after paying for accommodation if they are fortunate enough to have accommodation.

 

Yes, rents are far too high for many important contributors to our society who may be on low incomes.  Supermarket workers (as an example) are essential, but not highly paid.

 

Unfortunately sometimes there is poverty of education (including education on money management) or poverty of 'common sense'.  We need more people getting alongside households like this to help give them the tools to life themselves up.

 

 

Social services have been calling for this for a very long time. Their calls have been ignored by successive government. The majority of this work is done by volunteers and I have been doing it for a very long time and have some insight. Resources are very thin and the number of folks available to assist are very light on the ground. There is only so much volunteers can do as they too have lives to live and needs to be met.

 

Social services are under increasing pressure as more and more kiwis are seeking help and now including folks on higher incomes. Unfortunately in Aotearoa we have a habit of blaming the symptom and not treating the cause.


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