Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: I'm torn over Christchurch's makeshift camp for the homeless
Description: There’s a surgeon in Christchurch who owns a prime piece of real estate in the central city, right across the road from the five-star George Hotel. The section is worth about $4 million and the surgeon and his partner had planned to build on it at some point but they changed their minds. And so the section is vacant. Well, vacant in terms of a permanent structure but not completely vacant - because the surgeon and his partner have allowed a group of about six homeless guys to move in and set-up a makeshift camp....