Opinion: New Zealand has a begging emergency and it demands tough action.

Written By Shane Kaushal

4 May 2023

New Zealand has a begging and homelessness emergency and it’s worse than what I recently saw in a country most Kiwis associate with it – India.

Begging and homelessness here is the tip of a full-blown social emergency we see with ram-raiding kids destroying property for the sake of it.

RNZ hit the nail on the head saying shopkeepers on Auckland’s K Road are in despair. Not just the ram raids, but the crime and grime with begging and homelessness. And it’s not just K Road, or Auckland, but in towns across New Zealand.

To read more go to stuff.co.nz at: New Zealand has a begging emergency and it demands tough action | Stuff.co.nz

Shane Kaushal
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