If you are a young person tonight, or any other night, living in Palmerston North, you will need to hope
that you have somewhere to sleep, as currently the city provides no safe and secure emergency housing
for young people. If, for a range of reasons, a young person is not able to, or chooses not to stay with their
immediate or extended family, the social services in the city are forced to ask that young person to consider
sleeping on friends’ couches or to seek other equally inadequate housing options in the absence of a service
that could meet their housing needs.[From Executive Summary]
