https://bc.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1315963
All this material has been found on CTV News due to Bell Let's Talk Day
I hope you enjoyed the previous video's as well.
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
In Their Own Words
In Their Own Words- Very informative, highly recommend watch
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1315858
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1315858
Psychologist wants to do away with the word 'addict'
B.C. psychologist wants to do away with the word 'addict'
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man prepares heroin he bought on the street to be injected at the
Insite safe injection clinic in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on
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A B.C. mental health practitioner is calling for change in the way we
talk about drug and alcohol use, saying that certain language can foster
stigma and discourage people from seeking treatment.
Heather Baitz, a clinical psychologist at the Burnaby Centre for Mental Health and Addiction, wants people to use person-first language instead of phrases that identify people based on their disorder.
This includes saying someone is a “a person with a substance abuse disorder” rather than calling them “an addict,” she said.
“It’s a focus on specific, objective behaviours.”
Baitz said that by separating the disorder from the person, it transforms people’s understanding of the the illness from a permanent characteristic into something changeable.
She suggested using phrases like “I’m concerned about your alcohol use,” rather than “you’re an alcoholic.”
The psychologist also doesn’t agree with expressions such as “dirty” or “clean” when talking about drug use.
“There’s really no objective reason why someone using a substance is dirty,” she said. “It creates more shame and may prevent people from talking to support.”
Instead, she’d like to see someone referred to as “10 years substance-free.”
While some people use the word addict to describe themselves, she says health care providers should not prematurely jump on board by using the term.
In her practice, she sees people who are dealing with mental illness and substance use issues at the same time.
She views drug and alcohol use as a continuum.
“Some people may use recreationally for their whole lives and never develop a disorder,” she said. “People can also jump around on the continuum.”
Heather Baitz recommended the following resources for anyone in crisis or in need of support:
310-6789: 24/7 confidential mental health support for anyone in BC
BC-wide: 1-800-SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433) 24/7 support if you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide
1-800-663-1441: 24/7 confidential substance use support for anyone in BC
For mental health and substance use information at Here to Help BC
Bounce Back: Free skill-building program designed to help individuals experiencing mild to moderate depression or anxiety available for free across BC
Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre
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Heather Baitz, a clinical psychologist at the Burnaby Centre for Mental Health and Addiction, wants people to use person-first language instead of phrases that identify people based on their disorder.
This includes saying someone is a “a person with a substance abuse disorder” rather than calling them “an addict,” she said.
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Heather Baitz is a clinical psychologist at the Burnaby Centre for Mental Health and Addiction. (Courtesy / Heather Batiz)
Baitz said that by separating the disorder from the person, it transforms people’s understanding of the the illness from a permanent characteristic into something changeable.
She suggested using phrases like “I’m concerned about your alcohol use,” rather than “you’re an alcoholic.”
The psychologist also doesn’t agree with expressions such as “dirty” or “clean” when talking about drug use.
“There’s really no objective reason why someone using a substance is dirty,” she said. “It creates more shame and may prevent people from talking to support.”
Instead, she’d like to see someone referred to as “10 years substance-free.”
While some people use the word addict to describe themselves, she says health care providers should not prematurely jump on board by using the term.
In her practice, she sees people who are dealing with mental illness and substance use issues at the same time.
She views drug and alcohol use as a continuum.
“Some people may use recreationally for their whole lives and never develop a disorder,” she said. “People can also jump around on the continuum.”
Heather Baitz recommended the following resources for anyone in crisis or in need of support:
310-6789: 24/7 confidential mental health support for anyone in BC
BC-wide: 1-800-SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433) 24/7 support if you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide
1-800-663-1441: 24/7 confidential substance use support for anyone in BC
For mental health and substance use information at Here to Help BC
Bounce Back: Free skill-building program designed to help individuals experiencing mild to moderate depression or anxiety available for free across BC
Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre
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Fentanyl crisis claims the life of one man's wife and son in B.C.
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Language matters Educate yourself Be kind Listen and ask TalMore than 1,420 people died of ilicit-drug overdoses in B.C. in 2017, the 'most tragic year ever': Coroner
More than 1,420 people died of illicit-drug overdoses in B.C. in 2017, the 'most tragic year ever': coroner
Fentanyl caused more than 80% of suspected deaths last year
The B.C. Coroners Service releases the number of suspected
illicit overdose deaths in 2017 on Wednesday. (Rafferty Baker/CBC)
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Lisa Lapointe said the preliminary total for the year is at 1,422 — an increase of 43 per cent from 2016 — but that figure will grow as test results continue to come in.
Approximately 81 per cent of suspected deaths last year involved the opioid fentanyl. Lapointe said it was often combined with other illicit drugs — most often heroin, cocaine or methamphetamines.
"If not for fentanyl, we wouldn't be seeing the deaths we're seeing," she said Wednesday.
A man walks past a mural by street artist
Smokey D. about the fentanyl and opioid overdose crisis in Vancouver.
Most of the overdose deaths in the province happened in that city.
(Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press)
Vancouver saw the highest number of deadly overdoses last year, followed by Surrey and Victoria.
The coroners service said nobody died at any supervised consumption site or at any of the drug overdose prevention sites.
Naloxone temporarily blocks the effects of an opioid overdose to save lives. (Sam Colbert/CBC)
The provincial health crisis, first declared in 2016, has continued into the new year: nine deaths were reported over five days in the B.C. Interior last week.
Provincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall, speaking on his last day before retirement, said the numbers show the province is still in the middle of an "epidemic of poisoning deaths."
Indigenous people in B.C. were also disproportionately affected by the crisis in 2017 — Dr. Patricia Daly said they accounted for 10 per cent of all illicit overdose deaths in B.C. last year, even though they only represent 3.4 per cent of the provincial population.
'Cautiously optimistic'
However, Daly said there is a glimmer of hope in the numbers.She said statistics show a "significant decrease" in deaths over the last four months of 2017: an average of 96 deaths per month from September to December, compared with the first eight months of the year when there were more than 129 deaths per month.
Daly said she's "cautiously optimistic" about the 25 per cent drop.
"Things are moving in a better direction ... but I'd say it's too early to say it's an ongoing downward trend," she said.
Lisa Lapointe, chief coroner with the BC
Coroners Service, said Wednesday said the province "we wouldn’t be
seeing the deaths we’re seeing ... if not for fentanyl." (CBC)
She says the crisis is affecting the province's "most vulnerable" people.
"It's not surprising that we're still in the middle of a crisis and that people are still dying," said Blyth. "More action has to be taken — immediate action — with expanding safe access drug programs so that people are not taking a lethal dose of something that's going to kill them."
She also said the stigma associated with drug addiction — something Kendall called a "chronic, relapsing health condition" — can be deadly.
"[Users] don't want anyone to know [they're using] ... They use home alone in shame and that's when they die."
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Glee Actor Mark Salling, 35, found dead
http://www.tmz.com/2018/01/30/mark-salling-dead-suicide-dies
11:05 AM PT -- Law enforcement sources tell us Salling's body was found hanging from a tree.
10:45 AM PT -- We're told police received a call to do a "welfare check" on Salling and somehow that led them to the baseball field where his body was found. We're told Salling had been dead for some time.
Our sources say a family member came to the LAPD station at 3 AM Tuesday to report Salling as a missing person.
We're told homicide detectives are on scene to rule out foul play, but they say all signs point to suicide by hanging.
Mark Salling committed suicide by hanging, according to law enforcement ... TMZ has learned.
We're told his body was found near a riverbed in Sunland ... the area where he lived. Law enforcement tells us Salling was hanging from a tree.
We've learned the address where Salling was found dead near a little league field adjacent to a creek.
The former "Glee" star was awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography involving prepubescent minors.
Prosecutors say he had 50,000 images of underage children.
Sentencing in the case was set for March. He was expected to get 4 to 7 years in prison as part of a plea deal.
TMZ broke the story ... Salling had cut his wrists back in August and it appeared to be a suicide attempt, although his lawyer denied it.
Salling was 35.
Mark Salling Dead From Suicide by Hanging
1/30/2018 9:54 AM PST
'Glee' Star Mark Salling Dead at 35 From Suicide by Hanging (UPDATE)
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11:05 AM PT -- Law enforcement sources tell us Salling's body was found hanging from a tree.
10:45 AM PT -- We're told police received a call to do a "welfare check" on Salling and somehow that led them to the baseball field where his body was found. We're told Salling had been dead for some time.
Our sources say a family member came to the LAPD station at 3 AM Tuesday to report Salling as a missing person.
We're told homicide detectives are on scene to rule out foul play, but they say all signs point to suicide by hanging.
Mark Salling committed suicide by hanging, according to law enforcement ... TMZ has learned.
We're told his body was found near a riverbed in Sunland ... the area where he lived. Law enforcement tells us Salling was hanging from a tree.
We've learned the address where Salling was found dead near a little league field adjacent to a creek.The former "Glee" star was awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography involving prepubescent minors.
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TMZ broke the story ... Salling had cut his wrists back in August and it appeared to be a suicide attempt, although his lawyer denied it.Salling was 35.
What is the Doomsday Clock?
What is the Doomsday Clock?
The Doomsday Clock: What is it and why it sped up
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has officially sped up the world's Doomsday Clock, citing world leaders' failure to deal with threats of nuclear war. Here's a brief history of what the clock symbolizes and how it started.The metaphorical clock skipped 30 seconds ahead in 2018 due to “reckless language” from world leaders, North Korea’s advancing nuclear weapons program, tensions between the U.S. and Russia, devastating natural disasters, among other reasons.
“To call the world nuclear situation dire is to understate the danger — and its immediacy,” the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a nonprofit that educates the public on global security and public policy issues plaguing the world, announced in an online statement.
It’s the closest the clock has been to doomsday in 65 years, at the height of the Cold War, according to the Bulletin.
Fox News asked Rachel Bronson, the president and CEO of the Bulletin, to explain what the Doomsday Clock is, and why it has been creeping closer to midnight during the past decade.
What is the Doomsday Clock?
The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that was created at the beginning of the Cold War in 1947 to represent the threat of nuclear weapons, which, the Bulletin says have the potential to destroy civilization as we know it.The Bulletin recently started to factor in climate change, harmful chemical or biological agents and emerging technologies when determining how much the clock has moved.
“We really track existential threats that are man-made,” Bronson told Fox News. “But the factors that have really moved the clock have always been nuclear from the beginning.”
Who determines how much the clock moves each year?
The Bulletin’s Science and Security Board (SASB), a group comprised of about 13 international experts in fields that focus on the climate, nuclear weapons and technology, meets every year around November to discuss the state of the world.“We begin reviewing where were we last year – what we were concerned about then,” Bronson explained. “Then we come to a consensus of where we think the time is and what the key issues are.”
Do politics come into play?
Sure. The Bulletin follows politics and public policies throughout the year, but officials say the outcome shouldn't be interpreted as a political statement.“We’ve moved it backward and forward pretty equally in Republican and Democratic administrations,” Bronson said. “That’s a criticism or a charge that’s been unfounded.”
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the clock 30 seconds closer to midnight in 2018.
(Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
Why is the clock 30 seconds closer to midnight this year?
"We were worried about the world’s nuclear rhetoric language, comments based on fake news and recklessness around issues that are so important," Bronson said. "Moving the clock 30 seconds conveyed the message they were trying to send: this doesn’t bode well."President Trump was called out several times in the Bulletin's statement, specifically for his comments on North Korea.
"President Donald Trump should refrain from provocative rhetoric regarding North Korea, recognizing the impossibility of predicting North Korean reactions," the Bulletin advised.
The panel at the Bulletin also said 2017’s environmental disasters contributed to the moving of the clock – specifically the devastating wildfires in the U.S., powerful hurricanes, extreme heat waves and record-breaking shrinking Arctic ice caps.
"Climate change is a real and serious threat to humanity," the group wrote. "Citizens should insist that their governments acknowledge it and act accordingly."
Have you noticed any patterns in recent years?
The clock has been trending closer to midnight over the last 10 years.It first started inching closer to doom in the early 2000's to signal U.S.-Russia relations were deteriorating, Bronson explained.
From 2015 to 2018, the clock has dropped from 3 minutes to 2 minutes. With two 30-second increments being registered respecively within the past two years.
How do you determine how much to move the clock?
There isn’t a specific formula SASB follows when determining how much to increase or decrease time.“It’s really a judgment,” Bronson said. “They’re not back there calculating anything, though they do that frequently in their every day jobs.”
Why does the Doomsday Clock exist?
The Doomsday Clock was created to spark conversation and give the public an idea of where the world is."It gets people more engaged and pressures the public to ask world leaders important questions," Bronson said. "There’s more awareness now; that's for sure."
The Bulletin also provides recommendations to improve the planet, which they hope leaders and citizens will consider.
"It is urgent that, collectively, we put in the work necessary to produce a 2019 Clock statement that rewinds the Doomsday Clock," the Bulletin said in a statement. "The time is now."
"I suffered in silence": Psychoogist opens up about his own struggle with mental illness
'I suffered in silence': Psychologist opens up about his own struggle with mental illness
A top Canadian researcher and psychologist is sharing the story of his own struggles with mental illness. Avis Favaro reports.
Clinical psychologist Dr. Ian Manion opens up about his own struggles with mental illness.
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Last Updated Monday, January 29, 2018 11:12PM EST
Having dedicated his life to healing others with mental illness, it
took years before Dr. Ian Manion realized he needed help himself.
The clinical psychologist, who works at The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, has suffered from anxiety and depressive episodes since childhood.
"I remember being a little kid where there were people coming over and I was very anxious, and I remember going and hiding in a closet because I just wasn’t going to be able to handle it,” Manion, who is one of the faces of the Bell Let’s Talk campaign this year, told CTV News.
“And being in the closet and saying, ‘If I stop hold my breath long
enough, will I stop breathing and go away?’ So at a young age I was
starting to think about suicidal thoughts. I didn’t know they were
suicidal thoughts, but I knew I didn’t want to feel this way anymore.”
“Suicidal thoughts followed me for quite a while,” he added.
At 17, Manion says that he considered ending his life.
"I actually sat in the car, running the motor with the garage door down and hoping, like that little kid in the closet, ‘Maybe I’ll stop breathing and I’ll stop having these feelings.’ It’s a terrible thing to think, right? And then I guess the smarter part of me, the wiser part of me, said, ‘What am I doing to the people I care about?"
Manion's experiences led him to study psychology and specialize in youth mental health at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario. He had a successful career and was a father of five.
But when one of his five children was diagnosed and treated for an eating disorder, he was forced to confront his long-hidden struggles.
"I thought I was carrying all the balls in the air, I thought I was managing all my inner demons -- a good professional, I was helping other people, I had a great job, colleagues, some successes. I had kids -- although they had some challenges, I thought they were doing OK. And nothing was OK. And I wasn’t OK.”
Manion finally sought counselling and started taking medication.
At first he kept his personal struggles private, but was approached to speak about it at a health conference. To do so, he first had to tell his parents.
"My parents didn’t know I suffered from mental illness. I was the psychologist in the family,” he said.
Manion had frequently helped other family members with their mental health issues, giving them advice and directing them to services.
“I went to speak to my parents and they started crying. They said, ‘How can you have a mental illness? You’re our mental health professional.”
Now he talks about his struggles to whoever it's appropriate. He recalls one presentation via a webcast to students at several high schools.
"’You can be someone with an illness and do really, really well,’ I told them. ‘And by the way, I am someone who has a mental illness and I think I do OK.’ And I said that on camera -- live broadcast across all these high schools -- and you can see ... the screenshots of either a classroom or a cafeteria or an auditorium, and the kids’ faces are kind of [pondering that]. And there was a question period at the end and one of the kids puts up their hand and asks: ‘How can you have that? You’re a doctor.’ And I explained, ‘Yes, doctors can have that too, and lawyers can have that too, and teachers can have that too, and you can have that too. And I can get better and you can get better.’”
Dr. Zul Merali, the CEO of The Royal's Institute of Mental Health Research, says Manion’s voice has become a powerful force in youth mental health in Canada.
“He knows what needs to be out there to help the young people deal with mental illness because of his experience,” he said.
“People with mental illness often feel their voices are not heard. So called ‘experts’ tell them what to do. In Ian’s case, he speaks that language, he lives that life, and he brings his expertise to change things.”
Manion has helped establish YouthNet -- programs that promote mental strength and resiliency among teenagers -- by letting young people design programs. His goal is to help schools, doctors and communities help teens develop mental strength and resilience, as a means of preventing psychological distress that’s rampant among Canada’s youth.
“I want to fill their toolboxes with so many things that they don’t have to suffer in silence. They know they can not be too well and get well again,” he said.
Manion also believes Canada’s mental health system needs to retooling so it focuses more on prevention.
“Our model of care has been to wait until people are very sick and really broken, and then fix them through expensive means. Or we have people waiting in line at the wrong door for the wrong care, the wrong services,” he said.
“I believe we have to get to the front end -- that takes us to the tool box, (where we) are helping young people to understand there are ways to manage their feelings.”
With a report from CTV medical specialist Avis Favaro and producer Elizabeth St. Philip
The clinical psychologist, who works at The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, has suffered from anxiety and depressive episodes since childhood.
"I remember being a little kid where there were people coming over and I was very anxious, and I remember going and hiding in a closet because I just wasn’t going to be able to handle it,” Manion, who is one of the faces of the Bell Let’s Talk campaign this year, told CTV News.
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Dr. Manion, a
clinical psychologist with The Royal and the School of Psychology at the
University of Ottawa, speaks to CTV News for Bell Let’s Talk.
“Suicidal thoughts followed me for quite a while,” he added.
At 17, Manion says that he considered ending his life.
"I actually sat in the car, running the motor with the garage door down and hoping, like that little kid in the closet, ‘Maybe I’ll stop breathing and I’ll stop having these feelings.’ It’s a terrible thing to think, right? And then I guess the smarter part of me, the wiser part of me, said, ‘What am I doing to the people I care about?"
Manion's experiences led him to study psychology and specialize in youth mental health at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario. He had a successful career and was a father of five.
But when one of his five children was diagnosed and treated for an eating disorder, he was forced to confront his long-hidden struggles.
"I thought I was carrying all the balls in the air, I thought I was managing all my inner demons -- a good professional, I was helping other people, I had a great job, colleagues, some successes. I had kids -- although they had some challenges, I thought they were doing OK. And nothing was OK. And I wasn’t OK.”
Manion finally sought counselling and started taking medication.
At first he kept his personal struggles private, but was approached to speak about it at a health conference. To do so, he first had to tell his parents.
"My parents didn’t know I suffered from mental illness. I was the psychologist in the family,” he said.
Manion had frequently helped other family members with their mental health issues, giving them advice and directing them to services.
“I went to speak to my parents and they started crying. They said, ‘How can you have a mental illness? You’re our mental health professional.”
Now he talks about his struggles to whoever it's appropriate. He recalls one presentation via a webcast to students at several high schools.
"’You can be someone with an illness and do really, really well,’ I told them. ‘And by the way, I am someone who has a mental illness and I think I do OK.’ And I said that on camera -- live broadcast across all these high schools -- and you can see ... the screenshots of either a classroom or a cafeteria or an auditorium, and the kids’ faces are kind of [pondering that]. And there was a question period at the end and one of the kids puts up their hand and asks: ‘How can you have that? You’re a doctor.’ And I explained, ‘Yes, doctors can have that too, and lawyers can have that too, and teachers can have that too, and you can have that too. And I can get better and you can get better.’”
Dr. Zul Merali, the CEO of The Royal's Institute of Mental Health Research, says Manion’s voice has become a powerful force in youth mental health in Canada.
“He knows what needs to be out there to help the young people deal with mental illness because of his experience,” he said.
“People with mental illness often feel their voices are not heard. So called ‘experts’ tell them what to do. In Ian’s case, he speaks that language, he lives that life, and he brings his expertise to change things.”
Manion has helped establish YouthNet -- programs that promote mental strength and resiliency among teenagers -- by letting young people design programs. His goal is to help schools, doctors and communities help teens develop mental strength and resilience, as a means of preventing psychological distress that’s rampant among Canada’s youth.
“I want to fill their toolboxes with so many things that they don’t have to suffer in silence. They know they can not be too well and get well again,” he said.
Manion also believes Canada’s mental health system needs to retooling so it focuses more on prevention.
“Our model of care has been to wait until people are very sick and really broken, and then fix them through expensive means. Or we have people waiting in line at the wrong door for the wrong care, the wrong services,” he said.
“I believe we have to get to the front end -- that takes us to the tool box, (where we) are helping young people to understand there are ways to manage their feelings.”
With a report from CTV medical specialist Avis Favaro and producer Elizabeth St. Philip
One woman's solution to a rental crisis in New Zelands far north; Buy a teepee
One woman's solution to a rental crisis in NZ's far north: Buy a teepee
Jenny Ling
Syreeta is one of many Far North residents turning to alternative housing options due to a rental squeeze.
Rising rents, fewer rental properties available and more people moving to the region mean some residents are turning to alternative housing options.
We'd love to hear your story - good or bad - about the rental market and what issues you think we need to explore. Email us at newstips@stuff.co.nz
Kerikeri resident Syreeta Hewson, 42, says her landlord asked her to move out of the studio apartment she was temporarily renting last year.
READ MORE:
* Full coverage: The Rental Squeeze
* How to beat the odds and secure a Wellington rental
* NZ's homes with no heart
* Tauranga out-ranks Auckland as NZ's most unaffordable city for housing
* What's squeezing the life out of NZ's rental market?
Jenny Ling
Syreeta Hewson is living in this teepee after struggling to find a rental in Kerikeri.
The cafe manager and barista paid just under $2000 for the teepee, which she has been living in for three months at a local motor camp which charges $100 a week including electricity.
Hewson says rental properties are scarce and prices are too high.
"I don't think there's anything affordable for one person. When you contact real estate agents they don't get back to you. Even a flatmate situation, there were only one or two listed."
Hewson says she's not the only one.
She has met two men aged 30 to 40 who are "fully employed" and living in tents because they can't find anywhere to live.
"I meet people every day who are basically becoming homeless up here. It's really shocking. It's a huge problem."
The median rent for a three-bedroom house in the Bay of Islands is now $420 a week, in Mangonui and Kaeo it's $310 per week, in Kaikohe it is $280 and in Kaitaia it is $280 per week.
A search on Trade Me for a three-bed house in the Far North returned just 15 results.
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Tauranga is another place struggling over housing. The city now outranks Auckland in terms of unaffordable housing.
Founder of Finkk [Families in Need Kerikeri] Monika Welch says there is definitely a shortage of rentals in the Far North.
Rents, especially in Kerikeri, are too high and some landlords would rather list their rentals on Airbnb because they get more money, she says.
One person she knows who rented out their three-bed house on Airbnb is "getting $300 a night and is booked up till March".
"People are having to do alternative things because there absolutely is a shortage of places," Welch says.
"I don't think it's the investment that it used to be. People are putting on $450 to $500 for a three-bed place and I know it's going to fall over. You have one bad week when your car breaks down or the washing machine breaks down...for some it's not far off their entire wage for the week."
Kerikeri mum Kathleen Griffiths searched for a rental for three months last year after her landlord wanted his property back for his own family to move into.
Griffiths, her husband and two children aged six and 12, ended up moving onto sleepouts on her mother-in-law's large section.
"It was impossible; there was either nothing in the price range we could afford or they were all located some distance away.
"Not only do you have a financial barrier, you have a distance barrier or you're up against 50 other people."
Griffiths and her husband live in a 11sqm sleepout, the kids live in another sleepout nearby, and they share a caravan for the toilet, shower and cooking.
"It's difficult - you're used to having all your stuff in a set place, when you're decreased to a small environment you've got stuff packed that you may or may not need."
The couple, in their 30s, are now looking at relocating to Waikato where there are "more houses and more options".
"We're hoping to buy but the problem is coming up with the deposit. Here in Kerikeri and Northland prices are quite expensive. Especially for first home buyers.
"Places like the Waikato we could potentially get a three-bed house for $350,000 whereas up here we would be struggling to get anything for under half a mill."
Harcourts Kerikeri business owner Tom Rutherford said changes in the industry, including the Healthy Homes Bill, "have taken the shine off" owning an investment property for some landlords.
The law will require landlords to guarantee that any new tenancy from July 1, 2019 must be either properly insulated or contain a heating source able to make the home warm and dry. All tenancies must meet the new standards by July 1, 2024.
"You've seen a decrease in stock in the last 12-18 months in Northland due to changes in the industry - mum and dad investors concerned about requirements and the change of government...that's taken the shine off it," Rutherford said.
There are also lots of people moving to Northland, he said.
"It's a stable and constant increase."
The latest Trade Me Property Rental Index shows fewer listings compared to last year, and the cost of rent was on the rise.
Head of Trade Me Property Nigel Jeffries said that fiercer demand for rentals was being seen all over the country.
"Nationwide the number of available rentals has halved since December 2016, falling 49 per cent with median weekly rent rising 2.2 per cent to $460 per week."
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