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What does the Government attribute the increase in the proportion of households entering transitional housing because they were living without shelter, recorded in the Homelessness Insights report to 31 March 2026 as rising from 19.0 percent in March 2025 to 23.5 percent in March 2026, to?

Answered Question 29079 (2026)
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Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

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  • What does the Government attribute the increase in the proportion of households entering transitional housing because they were living without shelter, recorded in the Homelessness Insights report to 31 March 2026 as rising from 19.0 percent in March 2025 to 23.5 percent in March 2026, to?

Answered by

Hon Chris Bishop

Member for Hutt South · National Party · Minister of Housing

Answer

I am advised that the percentage of households entering transitional housing because they were living without shelter varies over time and there is no single factor influencing the change over the last year. The monthly average proportion of entries without shelter between March 25 and March 26 was 22.2%, with March 25 lower than that average and March 26 being higher than that average; monthly variance is normal.