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This video damn near broke my heart. It's just an advert for CCTV but my god, it's not a happy ending. Seems an odd approach for an advert to take but it sure stuck with me. Don't watch if you don't want to feel sad, I can summarise: Homeless man sleeps outside of shop, shop owner abuses homeless man every morning when he opens, homeless man eventually isn't there anymore. Shop owner misses homeless man and views CCTV to find out what happened. Homeless man had been protecting shop owner's shop from vandals and hooligans, only to get in a fight with some robbers and get stabbed to death. See? Not happy. But very good at reaching audience with pathos technique.

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/govt-fronting-up-9m-address-homeless-problem-two-new-schemes

Interesting article, the government has put 9mil into helping the 2000 homeless people of New Zealand. Andrew Little says it's last minute and not enough. But at least SOMETHING is happening. I was starting to go mad with the inactivity in the government. Seems national is the embodiment of the business man walking past and ignoring someone in need of help.

I saw this guy's shelter on the street and was really curios as to what it was, I thought it might've been some kind of performative piece but it was actually a homeless shelter he built himself! So innovative and interesting! He's got an amazing attitude and says some really insightful things about homeless.

Article on the same guy: http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/meet-the-guy-who-s-living-homeless-2-0