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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/homeless-face-of-the-day/
- Published: 2021-04-21T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-04-22T20:42:57.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Featured, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14

> Homeless for six years, living in emergency accommodation for two years, Raelyn Monkhouse [instead bunked down in her ca](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/106063441/rise-in-homeless-older-generation-predicted-as-housing-crisis-bites?ref=goodoil.news)r, until last week when her car was stolen.  
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> Now, the 58-year-old says she will be [rough sleeping within the week](https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/82545330/uncertainty-fear-and-hunger-what-it-is-like-to-sleep-rough-on-wellingtons-streets?ref=goodoil.news), and the Ministry of Social Development has refused to help.  
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> “I’m facing death, sitting on a street corner somewhere – that’s what’s going through my mind,” Monkhouse said.  
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> “I have shoes which are open toed, those are the only shoes that I own. I can’t carry much with me. I’m cold. It’s getting colder.”  
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[Read the full article here.](https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/housing-affordability/124861129/car-stolen-emergency-housing-denied-a-woman-faces-sleeping-rough?ref=goodoil.news) Comment on it on *The BFD.*