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Expert warns Homelessness Insights Report may not display extent of issue

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Wed, 23 Jul 2025, 6:09pm

Expert warns Homelessness Insights Report may not display extent of issue

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 23 Jul 2025, 6:09pm

A social housing commentator says the numbers of people without a home is probably worse than data suggests. 

June Homelessness Insights released today show rough sleeping's worsening countrywide, across all measures. 

The 2023 Census indicated a 37 percent increase between 2018 and 2023, reaching almost 5,000 without shelter. 

But Bernie Smith says the Census wasn't that accurate - and explained many people on the street weren't contactable or didn't do the Census. 

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