Housing

The difference between a stable home and being in crisis can be as simple as the loss of a job or a relationship break-up, advocate Mark Henaghan says. Audio

A Healthy Homes Initiative review shows every dollar spent led to $5 in health savings in the following five years, fewer hospitalisations and less school absenteeism.

"This sort of behaviour really can't continue," say opponents of a controversial proposal to build on productive food growing land.

The government says the drop is positive, but Labour says the need hasn't dropped - just the number of applicants.

Community Housing Aotearoa says developers could sell the homes at the end of a lease contract, removing them from the social housing pool. Audio

Minister of Housing Chris Bishop says CHPs often struggle to access finance that fairly reflects underlying risk for building social houses, while Kāinga Ora is able to use government funding.

House price expectations have lifted and there's positivity about interest rates continuing to drop, ASB bank's latest survey found.

70 vacant flats in Auckland Council's pensioner villages will be refurbished and rented out after sitting empty for years, some almost in ruin.

Rubbish is strewn throughout the home, there are cracks in the ceiling and the fridge and dishwasher are missing. Audio

"This is a complex area of work, and there are many factors that impact on a lack of housing resilience or becoming homeless," a council report says.