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Risk rating for clients 'not living in any accommodation' (including emergency housing or transitional housing)
There are only 2 outcomes from the assessment of whether the client is 'not living in any accommodation' or is staying in emergency housing or transitional housing for the time being. These are:
- at risk (4), or
- low or no need (1)
Note clients getting an Emergency Housing Grant or who are being housed by a contracted emergency housing or transitional housing provider are at risk and are therefore given a rating of 4.
At risk (4) | Low or no need (1) |
A client is at risk if they cannot access adequate housing and are: - not living in any accommodation, examples include:
- homeless e.g. living in a car, tent, homeless shelter, or public place
- living in accommodation that was only intended to be used as temporary accommodation, e.g. commercial accommodation such as a motel, a hotel, cabins in a caravan park, a marae, a mobile home or caravan
- squatting in a property
- staying in emergency housing or transitional housing for the time being, examples include:
- getting an Emergency Housing Grant
- staying in transitional housing funded by Ministry of Housing and Urban Development - short-term housing where clients have support services provided
- staying in contracted emergency housing
refuges such as those provided by Women's Refuge, Home and Family Society, Emergency Housing Trusts, Iwi and cultural organisations, or church organisations
| A client is considered to be living in accommodation' and not staying in emergency housing if they are: - boarding
- living in a home they and/or their partner owns
- living in a private rental
- living in social housing
- temporarily sharing - staying with friends or family
- living in a tent because they are travelling around New Zealand on a holiday
- living in a boarding house
- illegally sub-letting a property (how soon the client needs to leave this property is assessed under security of tenure)
- living in a garage (the condition of the garage and its facilities are part of the consideration of the adequacy of the current accommodation)
- due to leave prison or hospital (how soon the client needs to leave is assessed under security of tenure)
- in respite care (how soon the client needs to leave this housing is assessed under security of tenure)
- in rehabilitation (how soon the client needs to leave this housing is assessed under security of tenure)
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