OCTOBER 2017 VOLUME 30 – ISSUE 8 ISSN 1032-6170 Responding to Homelessness in Aotearoa New Zealand Contents Council to Homeless Persons Editorial — Ten Years On | 3 Auckland Council’s Role | 32 Jenny Smith Chief Executive Officer Jenny Smith, Chief Executive Officer, in Addressing Homelessness Kate Colvin Manager — Policy and Council to Homeless Persons The Community Empowerment Unit and Communications Glossary | 4 Community and Social Policy Teams, Ian Gough Manager — This glossary has been prepared using the online Auckland Council Consumer Programs version of Te Aka Māori–English, English–Māori | 34 Dictionary and Index. This glossary is not definitive, Housing First Auckland City Centre Lynette Deakes Office Manager and refers to this publication only. Programme: Responsiveness to Māori Noel Murray Parity Editor | Sophia Beaton (Kāi Tahu, Kāti Mamoe) Kia hiwa rā, Kia rite 5 and Sarah Greenaway Lanie Harris Communications Jade Kake, Poutohu Mātua, Coordinator Te Matapihi, National Māori Housing Advocate Housing First: | 37 Belinda Lack Digital Communications Introduction | 6 People Working with People Officer Brook Turner, Head of Community Services Angela Kyriakopoulos HAS Coordinator Chapter 1: Development, VisionWest Community Trust Cassandra Bawden Peer Education and Understanding Homelessness The Role of Local Government | 39 Support Program Team in Aotearoa New Zealand in a Homeless Response Leader The People’s Project: | Trish Westmore Capacity Building Understanding Homelessness 8 A Collaborative Community Response in Rural Aotearoa Coordinator to Rough Sleepers in Hamilton Damien Patterson Policy and Tao Faneva, Chief Executive Officer, Te Rūnanga O Whaingaroa Carole McMinn, The Peoples Project, Advocacy Officer part of the Wise Group Homeless Wāhine Māori | 10 Natasha Trajanovska Accountant Responding to Homelessness | 41 Address 2 Stanley Street and Survival Sex: An Emerging Link? Jade Kake, Te Matapihi, in New Zealand: Homelessness Collingwood National Māori Housing Advocate and Housing First for Māori: Melbourne VIC 3066 | Meaning and Optimisation Phone (03) 8415 6200 We Need a Strategy 11 Brennan Rigby, Principal Advisor, Social Outcomes, Fax (03) 9419 7445 to Address Homelessness David Zussman and Angie Cairncross Independent Māori Statutory Board E-mail [email protected] of Community Housing Aotearoa (CHA) Chapter 3: Website www.chp.org.au Kāinga tahi, kāinga rua:| 13 Promotion of Conferences, A kaupapa Māori Response Perspectives on Housing Events and Publications of Te Puea Memorial Marae Is it a Housing Crisis or | 44 Organisations are invited to have their Jenny Bol Jun Lee-Morgan, Waikato-Tainui, Just Housing Pressure? Ngāti Mahuta and Rau Hoskins, Ngāti Hau, promotional fliers included in the Bernie Smith, Monte Cecilia Housing Trust Ngāpuhi monthly mailout of Parity. Rates: $90 National | distribution, $70 Statewide distribution only. Enumerating Homelessness | 15 Tūrangawaewae: 46 Whānau Wellbeing for All Write for Parity! in Rural Māori Communities Jade Kake, Te Matapihi, Dr Lily George, Paul Gilberd, Anthea Napier, Contributions to are welcome. Parity National Māori Housing Advocate Reverend Dr Paul Reynolds, Reverend Jolyon Each issue of Parity has a central focus or White, Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand theme. However, prospective contributors Te Hā Tangata: | 17 and Polynesia A Human Library on Homelessness should not feel restricted by this as Parity seeks Housing Northland’s Homeless: | 49 to discuss the whole range of issues connected Elspeth Tilley, Associate Professor with homelessness and the provision of and Wellington Campus Coordinator, From Crisis to Confidence School of English and Media Studies, Adrian Whale, Executive Officer, housing and services to people who are Massey University Tai Tokerau Emergency Housing Charitable Trust homeless. Where necessary, contributions will | be edited. Where possible this will be done in Towards the Design 20 Chapter 4: consultation with the contributor. of Culturally-Based Supportive Housing Facilities Health and Homelessness Parity on the CHP Website Jade Kake, Te Matapihi, | www.chp.org.au/services/parity-magazine/ National Māori Housing Advocate Easy Access Housing: 50 Contributions can be sent by email to Transitional and Emergency Housing Single Women’s Homelessness | 22 [email protected] in a Microsoft Word or for Homeless tāngata whaiora in Aotearoa/New Zealand rtf format. If this option is not possible, Angie Cairncross, Communications Coordinator, Angie Cairncross, Communications Coordinator, Community Housing Aotearoa contributions can be faxed on (03) 9419 7445 Community Housing Aotearoa and Paula Lloyd, or mailed to CHP. Manager, Wellington Homeless Women’s Trust and Zap Haenga, Te WaiOra Tira Coordinator, Easy Access Housing Proposed 2017 Parity Publications Schedule Chapter 2: Housing First | NB: Please note that this may be subject to change. Elderly at 43: 52 Please check out the CHP website: www.chp.org.au Housing First Auckland: | 25 On Health and Homelessness for updates. A Collective Impact Approach to Jacqueline Humm, Strategic Communications November: Responding to Homelessness Ending Chronic Homelessness Lead and Communications Lead for Housing First Auckland in Queensland in New Zealand’s Largest City December: Victorian Homelessness Housing First Auckland Backbone Team Measuring Iterative Homelessness | 54 Conference edition Responding to Homelessness | 28 in Mental Health in Cover in Aotearoa New Zealand Aotearoa New Zealand Everyone has a story — Through Home-grown Best Practice Sho Isogai and Dr Nicky Stanley-Clarke Ngake and Whataitai Mural (detail). Stephanie McIntyre, Director, DCM1 Wellington Opinion Mural Artist: Daniel Mills. Photo: Jane Monaghan. One Housing First to Rule Them All? | 30 The views and opinions expressed in Parity Clare Aspinall, Jenny Ombler, Dr Nevil Pierse, Patrick Gemmell | 58 are not necessarily those of CHP. Professor Philippa Howden Chapman General Manager, Te Matapihi 2 Editorial — Ten Years On Jenny Smith, Chief Executive Officer, Council to Homeless Persons This understanding is something that This Parity edition makes it clear that Australians are yet to grasp as fully in our capacity to deliver best practice relation to Aboriginal Australia. housing support is underpinned by a The September 2016 edition of Parity, supply of housing affordable to those Responding to Indigenous on the lowest incomes. Unfortunately, Homelessness in Australia and a supply of low cost housing does not Aotearoa New Zealand explored these appear to be forthcoming in Aotearoa issues and underlined that rates of New Zealand, just as it is not in homelessness experienced by Australia. However, the solutions to Aboriginal and Māori people are vastly homelessness are within our grasp. disproportionate to their share of the Both our countries are crying out for overall population in both countries. a plan, a strategy and the investment that is required to address the This edition belongs to Aotearoa housing crisis and to end New Zealand. It brings together the homelessness. specialist community focussed on homelessness. It celebrates and Acknowledgements showcases the expertise within the This edition of Parity was made country. It documents the progress possible thanks to the support and It is ten years, since the the 2007 and successes and clarifies the assistance provided by a number of Responding to Homelessness in New challenges that remain. organisations and bodies in Aotearoa Zealand edition of Parity. In the time New Zealand. since, both Australia and New Zealand This edition clarifies the way in which have seen homelessness increase in homelessness is articulated and First among these is Robert MacBeth the context of a growing and ongoing counted. Whether it is through the from the Māori Housing Network, affordable housing crisis. Both have census, the Social Housing Register, or Te Puni Kōkiri, National Office. neglected social housing and made it our service activity; whichever way you Without his support, this edition harder for people to live with dignity slice it, the numbers are only going up! would not have been possible. on statutory incomes. We have largely Likewise, the support and assistance shared the dominant public policy Many articles demonstrate a cutting- of the Te Matapihi he Tirohanga mo te settings, seeing governments in both edge understanding of international Iwi Trust has been central to the countries continue to withdraw from best practice housing and support edition’s development and providing social housing while models, as well as showcasing preparation. enacting welfare policies demonising adaptations appropriate to local individuals rather than addressing the circumstances. The Housing First Also vital is the sponsorship support structural drivers of poverty. philosophy is clearly the preferred provided by Auckland City Council, policy response to homelessness in Housing First Auckland and the This current edition of Parity is Aotearoa New Zealand, as it is in Salvation Army New Zealand. underpinned by the understanding Australia. that homelessness and the response to Finally, our thanks and appreciation it in Aotearoa New Zealand can only be Encouragingly, these accounts are go to the work of the edition’s guest fully understood in its Indigenous permeated by the voice of the lived editors: Jade Kake Programme context. That homelessness and its experience of homelessness. Manager at the Te Matapihi he responses can only be fully Contributors spell out the importance Tirohanga