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Labour has paid nearly $1.4 billion dollars on emergency housing since 2017 - almost $1 million a day

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Thu, 27 Jul 2023, 12:52pm
Photo / NZ Herald
Photo / NZ Herald

Labour has paid nearly $1.4 billion dollars on emergency housing since 2017 - almost $1 million a day

Publish Date
Thu, 27 Jul 2023, 12:52pm

National is labelling emergency housing as a social and economic disaster.

Since Labour came to office in 2017, $1.4 billion has been spent on putting people up temporarily in motels.

National's Housing spokesman Chris Bishop told Kerre Woodham it's an extraordinary sum of money - an average of nearly a million dollars a day being paid to motel owners.

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