24/11/2025
We’re collectively standing against a proposed Bill targeting unhoused people in Auckland. If passed, the Policing (Direction to Move On) Amendment Bill would let Police force homeless people out of the city centre and into more unsafe areas.
This Bill is harmful because:
🏠 if passed, it would drive people with nowhere else to go away from areas where support services and networks are.
🏠 nearly 50% of unhoused people in Aotearoa live with mental health challenges and/or addictions – and having stable housing is key to treatment and recovery.
🏠 criminalising unhoused people doesn’t work. What does work are programmes that provide people with housing, health and wrap-around supports.
We’ve joined and many others in calling to scrap this Bill.
📖 Read the open letter here: https://actionstation.medium.com/open-letter-bin-the-ban-we-want-stable-homes-and-support-for-unhoused-wh%C4%81nau-78cf866fb769
