PHOTO: After her rental applications were turned down, Hinetau Jury says she worried her family would be left homeless. Source: Breakfast
Hinetau Jury worried she and her seven children were going to end up homeless.
The Hastings mother was living in a privately-rented four-bedroom house. But, after the Covid-19 lockdown, its owner wanted to sell.
“It was really difficult for us to find another home. Everywhere I applied they would say that cause we have so many, no-one would want us in their rental properties,” Jury told Breakfast. She has four biological children, and has fostered seven children at various times over a number of years.
Four days until the family would be forced to move out of their rental property, Jury said she feared she wouldn’t find a place to stay.
“We were thinking we were going to be homeless.”
She was then contacted by Kāinga Ora who told her she had a place to stay: a five-bedroom apartment in a new public housing development in Raureka. Jury moved into the home shortly before Christmas last year.
“I actually felt like somebody from heaven had shone a light on me … everything just lifted off me.
“I broke down in tears. I just couldn’t believe that we had somewhere to stay.”
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