A multi-agency rescue of a 60-year-old woman who has lived in bushes for four years near a motorway must happen urgently, charity workers and a leading mental health expert say.
A multi-agency rescue of a 60-year-old woman who has lived in bushes for four years near a Dunedin motorway must happen urgently, charity workers and a leading mental health expert say.
A $20 million council plan for more social housing in Dunedin will be put to councillors this month, amid calls for increased and strategic spending to tackle homelessness.
Street art is part of the community revival solution, street artists Guy Howard-Smith and James Bellaney say.
Vegan mince is catching on in the south of Dunedin, where more than 1000 meat-free meals are dished up nightly to people queuing round the block — and paying nothing or very little.
Dunedin climate experts, public sector leaders and campaigners are clamouring for the Dunedin City Council to immediately adopt a plan to reach carbon zero by 2030.
A 65-year-old homeless man, whose life in a boarding house room was photographed by the ODT last month, has been rescued from living under a bush - and his many belongings have been thrown in in a skip.
Homelessness can be "grappled" with through state housing and wraparound support services, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said in Dunedin yesterday.
Dunedin's homeless are shivering under a building occupied by government officials responsible for sorting out the city’s lack of social housing.
A government guide pointing Dunedin’s homeless people to some of the city’s worst boarding houses has been exposed, branded "disgraceful" by city leaders and its contents ripped up.
A city-wide plan to help Dunedin’s homeless get the support they need is being discussed with city councillors next week with the aim of stopping "vulnerable people slipping through the cracks".
Eleven Dunedin boarding houses are to be scrutinised by government — after the Otago Daily Times’ ongoing "Houses of Horror" investigation exposed the city’s hell holes.
Volunteers providing life-saving help to Dunedin’s homeless say a solution must be found to end "devastating" homelessness in the city.
Homeless people stuck in the infamous Carisbrook Hotel are starting to get out of it with the help of officials, after the Otago Daily Times exposed the building’s grim conditions.
Dunedin's Stafford Gables Hostel — lambasted in the media this year for being a terrible place to stay — is a boarding house for the homeless, while also still claiming to be a backpackers.
Jacky Cheung, the owner of the slum-house former Carisbrook Hotel, slapped three homeless people in his building with hand-written eviction notices last night.
The former Carisbrook Hotel has been branded by the government "not a suitable option" for emergency accommodation — and the government has stopped pointing homeless people to its slum rooms.
Telling homeless people’s stories took the Otago Daily Times into Dunedin’s darkest boarding houses — as well as some places of hope.
Hell and hardship are not hard to come by in Dunedin's boarding houses. Reporter Mary Williams exposes the stories of lives usually hidden behind crumbling walls.
Chronically sick and addicted homeless people are being left abandoned in Dunedin horror houses at risk of injury and death, an Otago Daily Times investigation exposes today.
