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Speaker 1: The days of emergency housing are all through and may

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Speaker 1: finally be over. The government has ended the house are

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Speaker 1: the use rather of contracted emergency housing motels in the city.

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Speaker 1: There are now no households in emergency housing. The Itania

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Speaker 1: Tapsle is the mayor of Rotruen. She's with us.

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Speaker 2: Titania, Am I the happiest me in the country right now? Potentially?

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Speaker 2: Are you?

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Speaker 1: How happy?

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Speaker 2: Are you? Oh? So happy? Look, you know, it's no

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Speaker 2: secret the social disaster that we had of these emergency

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Speaker 2: housing motils, and I'm just so happy for my community

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Speaker 2: that we've seen the end of it.

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Speaker 1: Now where have the people gone?

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Speaker 2: Though? Yeah, and that's a good question. And the good

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Speaker 2: news is we worked alongside this government to deliver a

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Speaker 2: record amount of affordable houses. And when I say affordable,

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Speaker 2: I say late eighty percent of market rent. This is

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Speaker 2: a big difference for the people that found themselves in

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Speaker 2: emergency housing motels.

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Speaker 1: A whole bunch of these people were actually shipped in

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Speaker 1: by labor, right, so they came from outside of r

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Speaker 1: They have been put in the motels. And let's be honest

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Speaker 1: about it, a bunch of the people who would have

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Speaker 1: been in these motels will now end up on the street,

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Speaker 1: are ending up on the street in Routu.

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Speaker 2: Look, and that has been a genuine concern, but I'm

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Speaker 2: really happy to confirm that is absolutely not the case.

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Speaker 2: We do have some people on the streets, as all

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Speaker 2: towns do. We've got about twelve to fifteen on any

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Speaker 2: given day. But you know what, we have constantly offered

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Speaker 2: these people help access to services that are available. We're

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Speaker 2: so lucky to be in a country that does have

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Speaker 2: services and help available. And unfortunately, at the end of this,

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Speaker 2: it is a health problem. There's dragon addiction issues. It's

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Speaker 2: not a housing problem, Tanya.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this has done your city no end of

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Speaker 1: harm just in terms of reputation and branding. Do you

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Speaker 1: reckon how long before you get your city back to

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Speaker 1: what it was before twenty twenty one when this started.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, and this is where I really need to

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Speaker 2: thank this government because they also backed it up with

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Speaker 2: giving us just over four million dollars to boost our tourism.

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Speaker 2: So that's promoting internationally as well, and between building the

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Speaker 2: homes we actually needed, affordable ones and boosting our economy,

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Speaker 2: that'd be great, Like our tourism industry here in a

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Speaker 2: Usta is the heartbeat of RULSTERA. They are awesome, they're

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Speaker 2: incredible and we are welcoming back heats of visitors. In fact,

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Speaker 2: our spend is actually just over what it used to

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Speaker 2: be in COVID prior, so we're very happy and it

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Speaker 2: also to come and see us anytime.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Tanya.

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Speaker 1: Tanya taps a, mayor of rot.

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