An ex of mine lived in a place like this too, Pickled Parrot Lodge on Coromandel St in Newtown, Wellington. Mingy little rooms and people in quiet desperation. Strippers, prostitutes, meth addicts, parolees, LGBT+, and abused kids rejected or runaways from their families, forced to try to be adults.

The place is still around. Don't know how it's run these days, but if you bundle all these people together by necessity without providing on-site social, mental and physical support services, you're asking for suffering if not disaster. There should be a medical room, with doctors, psychologists, social workers on a scheduled rotation. There should be a security guard and common-area cameras. There should be SPRINKLERS, it's ultrahigh-density housing, current-level safety shit is a MUST. But that's not what's in the regulations, because the landlord lobby is STRONG.

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