# Accepting 57,000 homeless mums with 33,000 homeless kids 'tells us who we are as a society' Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-hoon-6684157/accepting-57-000-homeless-mums-with-33-000-homeless-kids-tells-us-who-we-are-as-a-society Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-hoon-6684157/accepting-57-000-homeless-mums-with-33-000-homeless-kids-tells-us-who-we-are-as-a-society.md Podcast: [The Hoon](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-hoon-6684157) Published: 2026-06-08T05:35:30+00:00 Episode link: https://thekaka.substack.com/p/accepting-57000-homeless-mums-with Audio file: https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/201095711/7369bbd148bb27f426bc50e4c344e13b.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-hoon-6684157/episodes/accepting-57-000-homeless-mums-with-33-000-homeless-kids-tells-us-who-we-are-as-a-society Duration seconds: 1116 ## Resource I spoke with Victoria Crockford from the Coalition to End Women’s Homelessness this evening. She detailed the findings of the Coalition’s latest report , ‘ Children and Young People Experiencing Homelessness ,’ published today, including: * there are 33,000 children and young people experiencing homelessness and they face significantly higher rates of harm across multiple areas of their lives; * Children and young people experiencing homelessness are nearly three times more likely to have experienced abuse; * Young people experiencing homelessness are more likely to disengage from education and interact with the justice system; * Children under five experiencing homelessness are two times more likely to never have been enrolled with a Primary Health Organisation; * Children under five experiencing homelessness are 1.6 times more likely to never have been enrolled in early childhood education; * Children under five experiencing homelessness are significantly more likely to experience preventable hospitalisations, including respiratory illness and vaccine preventable disease; and, * Māori and Pacific children continue to be disproportionately impacted by homelessness and most of the tamariki are located in Auckland, Northland, or Gisborne. “What this research tells us about is who we are as a society, and I don’t think you can even read the headline and believe that enough is being done.” Victoria Crockford, co-lead of Coalition to End Women’s Homelessness. Thank you Kaimataara , Andrew Riddell , Max Du Frene , Alex Clarkson , and many others for tuning into my live video with VictoriaC ! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thekaka.substack.com/sub… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-hoon-6684157/episodes/accepting-57-000-homeless-mums-with-33-000-homeless-kids-tells-us-who-we-are-as-a-society/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-hoon-6684157/accepting-57-000-homeless-mums-with-33-000-homeless-kids-tells-us-who-we-are-as-a-society.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.