Homelessness and Housing
We are proud to lead Christchurch’s efforts to deal with homelessness. Every night of the year we offer warm, safe beds to Christchurch people who have nowhere else to go. We have about 15 emergency beds for men, 12 for women, and we also give them meals.
We also have our newly opened Whakaora Kāinga transitional housing, which is communal living transitional housing designed to provide a step towards stable housing for the homeless and people living in emergency accommodation.
Our Outreach team’s social workers work with people sleeping rough on the streets to look after them and help them into housing. Our emergency accommodation is often the first step to regaining hope.
We link our people into all our different services to help get their lives back on track.