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Auckland Council calls for 'urgent' action amid rise in homelessness

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Publish Date
Mon, 10 Mar 2025, 6:41pm
Auckland Council patrollers try to wake up a rough sleeper. Photo / RNZ, Finn Blackwell
Auckland Council patrollers try to wake up a rough sleeper. Photo / RNZ, Finn Blackwell

Auckland Council calls for 'urgent' action amid rise in homelessness

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九一星空无限talk ZB,
Publish Date
Mon, 10 Mar 2025, 6:41pm

Auckland Council鈥檚 Community Committee is urging the Government to help the city as rates of homelessness grow.

This comes as new data shows the number of people sleeping rough in the city has gone up by 53 percent since September.

Committee Chair, Councillor Angela Dalton, says she's never seen a spike like this before.

She also explained that this tied in with a number of other changing factors that were putting significant stress on Aucklanders. 

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