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THE GOOD OIL
February 25, 2026
> On Karangahape Rd, rough sleeper Justin Crosswell says he opposes the government giving police the power to order people like him away, because there’s “nowhere we can go”.
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> “I’m not liking it,” he said. “In my opinion it was them that put us here in the first place. I didn’t want to be put in this position... I have nowhere else to go, there’s no emergency housing... there’s nowhere we can go.”
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> Crosswell said he had been rough sleeping on and off for close to 30 years and had spent much of that time in Auckland’s city centre, including several years on K Rd. The area, he said, felt familiar.
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