Tourists don't have ultimate 'right to the city'

Tourists don't have ultimate 'right to the city'

In an interview on Mike Hosking’s Breakfast last week, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon expressed concern about international tourists encountering unhoused people in the cities of Aotearoa. He explained that the new proposed ‘move-on’ orders, which give police additional powers to force homeless people out of the downtown areas of Auckland and other cities, were to protect the experience of tourists. For Luxon, the biggest issue we have as a re…