Wellington City Missioner Murray Edridge on MSD emergency housing storm

Wellington City Missioner Reverend Murray Edridge says the country's homeless situation is "significantly worse than it's ever been", and the reduction of numbers for those in emergency housing is not a reflection of reality. This comes as an investigation by Q+A has revealed the Ministry of Social Development has a target metric for employees to decrease the number of people receiving emergency housing services. Rev. Edridge joins Nick Mills on the show this morning to talk about his first hand experience trying to support people in need of shelter and homes. He says National selling the reduction in emergency housing stats as a success, yet times have "never been as hard" is a "tragic outcome". LISTEN ABOVE See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.