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Stuff.co.nz – It would be so much cheaper just to house the homeless, so what are we waiting for?
”We can have a future in this country where every single person and whanau is housed and why wouldn't we want that? Look at what we were able to do in a really short period of time where a team of five million came together and actually took care of communities. Why...

Operational changes in response to COVID-19 Alert Level 2
On Monday, 18 May most of our team will begin a staggered return back to our offices in Hamilton and Tauranga after working from home for the past eight weeks. To ensure everyone’s safety, we are rearranging our office layouts to ensure physical distancing between...

Operational changes in response to COVID-19 Alert Level 3
As we move to Alert Level 3 on 28 April 2020, The People's Project offices will remain closed. We continue to operate our service as we have for the past five weeks under Alert Level 4. Our priority is providing wrap-around support to our housed Housing First clients...

Operational changes in response to the COVID-19 Alert Level 4
We want to assure everyone that at this time our service continues to operate. Business continuity is incredibly important to us and the people we are here to serve. However, at 11.59pm, Wednesday, 25 March and until further notice, our offices in Hamilton and...

Aotearoa New Zealand Homelessness Action Plan
The Government has released Phase One of the Aotearoa/New Zealand Action Plan (2020-2023). This is the first time in New Zealand that a comprehensive central government-led and cross-agency plan has been developed to prevent and reduce homelessness.