For the Rotorua Council to address the growing concerns of homelessness in Rotorua

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Remko Schipper
1 month ago
The reasons given for housing a large portion of the north islands homeless are for the wrong reasons and it is detrimental to Rotorua as a whole and it's citizens safety and well-being.
It's a financial disaster as well as poor governance which should never have been allowed to happen
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sue brown
Jan 24, 2021
Homeless need to be relocated away from the centr city
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susan Graeff
Jan 15, 2021
I agree this problem needs to be addressed by the RDC. They should never been placed in Our Golden Mile. Tourists will stop coming to stay in these motels.
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Charlotte Hellawell
Jan 15, 2021
It is my home town amd no one should be homeless.
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Simone MacMillan
Jan 14, 2021
I have sadly seen people traumatised, by homeless people, that have been brought in to Rotorua. Our own people from Rotorua who are homeless are suffering. Its not fair to them and not fair to us as a community in fact it’s increasing homelessness when competing for a home.
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janet france-goss
Jan 14, 2021
Putting homeless in motels isn't the solution. There needs to be a long term plan which includes more social housing built.
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Tania Patikura
Jan 14, 2021
Homeless people are a nation wide issue normal everyday people that have fallen on hard times. Please do all you can to support them.
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AMANDA Sloane
Jan 14, 2021
Our town no longer feels safe. I regularly see or hear violent behaviour across the road from where I work, and throughout the town. I have had four incidences of cars being broken into directly outside my home (in a perceived good neighborhood....but too close to the motels) and my home was previously robbed by people who were paid to move out of Auckland (MSD) and moved into a motel nearby, these same people were responsible for many burglaries in the neighbourhood. This has cost me financially and in my whanau feelings of safety, and I now have had to alarm my home, and we can't even park outside our own home...very sad indeed. I feel like moving away regularly, but was born and raised, have a big whanau here, and my mother and grandparents are also from here, so why should I have to move to feel safe again. I hate going to local stores/dairys and feeling unsafe with behaviours there,......though cynical me notices these people and behaviours are not outside the local district councillors store...(yes I said it publically ) I know this is not about all homeless people and not the majority, and housing, social and drug issues lie just below all of this, but our town cannot cope with increasing numbers, the strain on our system is too great. Enough is enough!
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Dean Henderson
Jan 13, 2021
We have the highest crime rate in NZ at the moment.
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Nicola Atkinson
Jan 13, 2021
I'm sick of the crime as a result of these people. I've been the target of abuse for not giving money to two drunks abs now my number plate was stolen in the carpark at the central mall
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