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Nadine Higgins: How innovative schemes are aiding first-home buyers

OPINION: Buying your first home? Here's how to get there faster, without the strings.

'I will f****n' smash you': Tenant evicted after threats, knife incident

The tribunal found her actions frightened and distressed other tenants and employees.

100,000 homes built in seven years – does Auckland still have a housing crisis?

The median house price in the city is now about $1 million, 7.5 times the median income.

Kāinga Ora needs to be ‘responsive to need’, says minister

'We want to take a very detailed specific look at what Whanganui needs' – Chris Bishop.

Love this City: The wind in Luxon’s hair, better housing and more dogs, roads and Matariki magic

Opinion: Goings on at Auckland Council and other highlights of the week.

'Major concern': 200 children lack safe beds in Northland

Overcrowding, inadequate bedding, mouldy mattresses put kids at risk of serious illness.

California is running out of safe places to build homes

Climate-related risks hamper state’s ability to solve a housing crunch. It’s not alone.

'Avalanche': Home owner of 30 years says his 300% insurance hike in five years is bad sign for NZ

'I feel embarrassed – you have this sense of loyalty. But there is no loyalty.'

House-building trend still soft as annual consents fall

May's annual consent total is the second-lowest for any month since the end of 2018.

PwC says sell: 59-unit partly built Du Val block up for sale

Government-appointed statutory managers PwC call in Colliers to quit an apartment project.

Motel generation ends: Just 24 families in region still using them for emergency housing

It's made finding accommodation cheaper, but some single people are 'sleeping on streets'.

Helping homeless men: New Napier night shelter opens just in time for winter

'We knew we couldn’t let another winter pass without doing something.'

She's moved 14 times since toxic flooding forced her out - now she has a place to call home

'We can rest, heal, rebuild and dream again.'

'Not much': $7200 fine for landlords breaching healthy homes standards too low

'Purpose not to deliver healthy homes but to set minimum standards for habitability.'

'Bad advice': Hipkins reflects on Labour's Rotorua housing challenges

Hipkins said Labour's next campaign will focus on jobs, health, and homes.

Police investigate homicide in Ōtāhuhu

A person has suffered critical injuries following an assault at an accommodation block on Beatty Ave in Ōtāhuhu. Video / NZ Herald