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How many applicants on the public housing register, if any, were displaced or delayed as a result of rough sleepers being placed into existing social homes under the September 2025 actions?

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Kieran McAnulty

List MP · Labour Party

Question

  • How many applicants on the public housing register, if any, were displaced or delayed as a result of rough sleepers being placed into existing social homes under the September 2025 actions?

Answered by

Hon Chris Bishop

Member for Hutt South · National Party · Minister of Housing

Answer

The September 2025 actions provided funding for 300 additional social housing places specifically for the Housing First programme, with some of the households supported into those homes having been on the Housing. There were no applicants on the Housing Register who were displaced or delayed.