{"id":5374,"date":"2023-06-07T20:57:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T08:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5374"},"modified":"2023-06-07T20:57:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T08:57:56","slug":"city-mission-pays-extra-1000-to-loafers-lodge-residents-displaced-by-deadly-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5374","title":{"rendered":"City Mission pays extra $1000 to Loafers Lodge residents displaced by deadly fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wellington City Mission says it has paid a further $1000 to each former resident of Loafers Lodge.<\/p>\n<p>A man has been charged with murder after five people died in the hostel fire in the suburb of Newtown last month.<\/p>\n<p>An initial payment of $500 had been given to displaced residents to buy day-to-day items, and to families of the dead to help with costs to travel to Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>The city mission said almost $360,000 had been raised for residents who lost all their possessions in the blaze.<\/p>\n<p>Of that, just over $92,000 has been given out.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant city missioner Paul Weaver said in the future money would go towards setting up permanent housing for the former lodge residents.<\/p>\n<p>There was also significant need for counselling and other trauma support, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Source\u00a0 RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wellington City Mission says it has paid a further $1000 to each former resident of Loafers Lodge. A man has been charged with murder after five people died in the hostel fire in the suburb of Newtown last month. An initial payment of $500 had been given to displaced residents to buy day-to-day items, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5376,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374\/revisions\/5376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}