31 Oct 2022

Rotorua residents, businesses describe emergency housing 'fiasco'

From Checkpoint, 5:17 pm on 31 October 2022

Residents and business owners have called the emergency housing system in Rotorua a "fiasco".

Today, locals and businesses told the housing ministry how the programme affects their lives and livelihoods.

The Ministry wants to keep 13 motels in the city operating as emergency housing for the next five years.

Our reporter Rayssa Almeida and camera operator Marika Khabazi spoke to some of the submitters.