SOLO PARENT HOUSING
It would be inappropriate for solo parents to be included in the pensioner rental accommodation policy, the Director-General of Health (Dr D. P. Kennedy) said in a letter received by the Waimairi County Council last evening.
Dr Kennedy was replying to a council request for information as to how accommodation could be provided for solo parents. The pensioner rental policy, he said, had been extended to cover aged persons who were getting a special age benefit or an invalidity benefit. Cr C. N. Harman, who had raised the question originally, said his idea was to widen the variety of tenants in groups of flats. Younger tenants could help the older ones. He did not advocate younger and older tenants living in adjoining flats, but in separate blocks.
He said the extension to invalidity beneficiaries meant that persons between the ages of 16 and 60 qualified, so the Government had already broadened the base for eligibility. Solo parents were about the only group missing. A sub-committee was set up to study the question.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32998, 18 August 1972, Page 14
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