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What does the future look like for housing associations in 2025 and beyond? What does it look like in a changing economic and social environment, one with greater commitments and fewer certainties – one where the government has promised to build 1.5 million new homes in a five-year parliament?
Recent disruptions in international aid further threaten to destabilize progress, particularly in countries with the greatest health-care needs. Sustained and predictable financing—from both domestic and international sources—is urgently needed to protect hard-won gains and respond to rising threats.
“A primary school teacher smashed their adoptive children’s heads together, forced them to swallow soap and called one of them a “black bastard”. Their partner – a barrister who also sat as a deputy district judge in the family courts – repeatedly failed to protect the children from their campaign of abuse. But despite the findings, the high court has ruled that the couple cannot be identified after The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) led a legal attempt to name them in the public interest.”
The public interest???
Ngāi Te Rangi Oranga Whānau social worker Violet Davidson (above) said many of her mental health clients required significant help and wraparound services. In her 24 years of experience, the issues had escalated and secondary health care services were “backlogged”.
Kirsten Ryder, training and development specialist with Stoney Nakoda First Nations, poses in front of Stoney Nakoda Child & Family Services building in Mînî Thnî
For Inwood native Jordana Suriel (SSW’25), growing up on Dyckman Street gave her a nuanced lens into how socioeconomic complexities can shape the human experience.
The Imprint’s recent five-part series, Medicated in Foster Care: Who’s Looking Out? revealed that states across the country have failed to properly monitor and curtail the heavy, haphazard reliance on psychiatric medication prescribed to foster youth. Dozens of young people with histories of trauma described “pain and anguish muffled, not healed,” by these quick-fix drugs.