The Bay of Plenty Times – in an article which revealed how taxpayers are bearing the brunt of Tauranga’s social housing crisis – brought rental costs into the picture.
Among the data uncovered by the newspaper, three community housing providers have been paid almost $17m towards income-related rent subsidies in the last two financial years . These subsidies are the difference between market rents and the amount paid by a tenant in income-related rent.
Four transitional housing providers which provided warm, dry and safe short-term accommodation received about $2.3m over the same timeframe and $1m was spent on emergency housing special needs grants including motels, $624,000 of this mainly to motels in Tauranga from October 2018 to December 2018.
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