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Hastings' homeless population gets the jab, but cohort still facing challenges

Challenges facing Hawke's Bay's homeless in the Covid pandemic are multi-faceted.

Building products prioritised as factories restart

Auckland factories will restart under level 4 with conditions set by MBIE.

'Two New Zealands': Many homeowners couldn't afford their own houses if they were buying now

'It's not about how much money you earn, you're sort of in or you're out.'

House prices go up more than $150,000 in a year

Northland has recorded an average house price increase of over 24 per cent in a year.

Auckland's biggest agency's sales down a third in August

Fourteen days of lockdown: sales volumes fell by a third

Kāinga Ora criticised over rat-infested house in South Auckland

A nearby resident said she had complained about the house 10 to 15 times.,

Real estate agent activity drops 52% in lockdown - what impact on prices?

CoreLogic data: House prices not growing as much as they had been.

Ormiston Rise 'new kind of neighbourhood' - has new owner

Work on construction only started in 2020 but building work stopped in May.

Bad builders, not James Hardie to blame, judge says

Soon after Auckland class action settled, another major case vindicates James Hardie.

Solo mum goes from 'gutter' to beachfront emergency housing

Motel owner: 'It's a supreme location, doesn't mean that it's too good for MSD people'.

Transitional housing planned for large vacant Fenton St motel

Signs on Fenton St have prompted concern over housing for the homeless.

Housing agency under fire for $30k spend on carving

But Kāinga Ora has defended the spend, saying it has been received well by the community.

The poor pay more: How housing problems are costing our kids

Housing crises are 'evicting' their childhood, says research.

RBNZ should consider double interest rate hike - ASB economist

Hiking more aggressively next week could head off inflation risk and cool housing.

Leaving a generation to the 'scrap heap': Child poverty soars

"If we give up, say it's too hard, we are consigning a generation to the scrap heap."

$6.5m in unpaid rates owed to Western Bay of Plenty council

The council says a significant portion of unpaid rates is related to Māori freehold land.