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Makiha, “Homelessness won’t go away.” As noted by HUD economic consultant Shamubeel Eaqub, if contracted motels are not
used, individuals will be pushed back into non-contracted motels paid by the emergency housing grant.
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Before Independent Hearings Commissioners Rotorua Lakes Council, Statement of evidence by Nicholas McNabb, October 5, 2022.
https://www.rotorualakescouncil.nz/repository/libraries/id:2e3idno3317q9sihrv36/hierarchy/our-council/consultation-andpublic-notices/publicnotices/220608-contracted-emergency-housing/applicants-reports-and-supporting-evidence/16%20
Nick%20McNabb%20Economic%20Evidence%20-%20Rotorua%20CEH%20Applications.pdf, at para 8.51.
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End of Mission Statement Visit of the Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing to New Zealand, Leilani Farha, February
2020. https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements/2020/02/end-mission-statement-visit-special-rapporteur-right-adequate-housingnew.
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Human Rights Council 47th session, Visit to New Zealand: Report of the Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component
of the right to an adequate standard of living and on the right to non-discrimination in this context, Leilani Farha, April 2021. https://
undocs.org/en/A/HRC/47/43/Add.1 at paragraph 25.
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Guidelines on the right to a decent home in Aotearoa at paragraph 66, and Strengthening Accountability and Participation in the
Housing System.
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Health & Disability Commissioner, The Code and your Rights https://www.hdc.org.nz/your-rights/the-code-and-your-rights/.
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Strengthening Accountability and Participation in the Housing System, chapter 6 (page 30-31).
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Te Tūāpapa Kura Kāinga Ministry of Housing and Urban Development Statement of Strategic Intentions 2019-23, February 2019.
https://www.hud.govt.nz/documents/hud-strategic-intentions-2019-2023/, at page 8.
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Independent Māori Statutory Board, “Rethinking the Housing Continuum”, Local Government New Zealand, 2019. https://www.
lgnz.co.nz/assets/Housing-2030-Library-Resources/6ebdbefd9a/Re-thinking-the-HOUSING-CONTINUUM.pdf.
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For example, see the diagram used in the Briefing for Incoming Minister: Housing and Urban Development State/Social Housing 2017,
Ministry of Social Development, Housing New Zealand, Treasury, Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment, Te Puni Kōkiri,
September 2017. https://www.msd.govt.nz/documents/about-msd-and-our-work/publications-resources/corporate/bims/2017/
housing-bim-2017.pdf. See also the continuum as illustrated by Kāinga Ora: “Our major housing programmes”, https://kaingaora.
govt.nz/working-with-us/our-major-housing-programmes/.
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Rethinking the Housing Continuum.
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Rethinking the Housing Continuum. The IMSB explicitly highlights the “income and opportunity gap” between those in safe and
secure housing and those not. Their model also reconsiders what they describe as “the typical linearity of the model which
presupposes a linear differentiation of homelessness experiences, and seems to imply a need to move through those stages
before exiting – a kind of graduation exercise from homelessness.”
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