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![First home buyer confidential: 'The dream of ownership has quickly drifted away'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=791)
First home buyer confidential: 'The dream of ownership has quickly drifted away'
Wannabe first home buyers on life on the frontline of New Zealand's housing crisis.
![Focus: How do young people feel about the housing market?](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=791)
Focus: How do young people feel about the housing market?
We ask young people around the NZME office about their home owning aspirations and expectations.
![Home Truths: NZ's Affordable Housing Crisis](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=791)
Home Truths: NZ's Affordable Housing Crisis
A look at New Zealand's affordable housing crisis and the way house prices have changed relative to incomes over time. Video / Paul Slater
![Interactive: Who's paying the highest rent in NZ?](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=791)
Interactive: Who's paying the highest rent in NZ?
Red spread: tenants' plight in two major cities revealed - interactive Herald graphics
![First home buyers' confidential: What's it like to be a first home buyer?](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=791)
First home buyers' confidential: What's it like to be a first home buyer?
First home househunting is hell - tell us your story.
![Brian Fallow: Choose your weapons in housing fight](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=791)
Brian Fallow: Choose your weapons in housing fight
First home buyers face financial risk, but Government's focus is on investors.
![Hamish Rutherford: Reserve Bank's preferred lending tool would hit investors 'hard'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=791)
Hamish Rutherford: Reserve Bank's preferred lending tool would hit investors 'hard'
Reserve Bank appears to soften stance that new lending rule needs to apply to everyone.
!['Tragedy for the future': The housing crisis and our children](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=791)
'Tragedy for the future': The housing crisis and our children
As Aotearoa's housing crisis deepens, experts warn of intergenerational impacts.
![House prices: Experts predict where the market is headed](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=791)
House prices: Experts predict where the market is headed
Home Truths: Could this month's Budget offer more policies to drive affordable housing?
![Hamish Rutherford: Housing fix a game of whack-a-mole](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=791)
Hamish Rutherford: Housing fix a game of whack-a-mole
OPINION: Move on property investors seems likely to create problem for low-income renters.
!['Dangerous' Auckland home renovation shut down](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=791)
'Dangerous' Auckland home renovation shut down
"If the place is dangerous, it needs to be fixed immediately as there are lives at risk."
![Tenant had to sleep in hallway after landlord failed to provide keys](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=791)
Tenant had to sleep in hallway after landlord failed to provide keys
An Auckland landlord has been ordered to pay compensation for the emotional harm caused.
![A home with no insulation: Damp, mouldy and big power bills](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=791)
A home with no insulation: Damp, mouldy and big power bills
Comment: With new insulation laws now in effect, what rights do current tenants have?
![Home Truths: A happy ending](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=791)
Home Truths: A happy ending
Young couple widened their search area and just bought their dream home.
![Home truth: First buyers need $670k](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=791)
Home truth: First buyers need $670k
COMMENT: No one can save fast enough to match house price increase, writes Andrew Laxon.
![$150k newly-weds face new-home reality](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=791)
$150k newly-weds face new-home reality
An Auckland couple who have spent weeks hunting a new home tell of their downsized dreams.
![Time for action on house prices](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=791)
Time for action on house prices
Editorial: A year on from our Home Truths series, housing remains unaffordable for most.
![Who will fund Auckland's future?](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=791)
Who will fund Auckland's future?
COMMENT: What will Auckland's housing market look like in decade, asks Liam Dann.
!['Victim of success' excuses wearing thin](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=791)
'Victim of success' excuses wearing thin
COMMENT: Housing will never lose its political potency, writes Audrey Young.
![10 tips to get on the property ladder](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=791)
10 tips to get on the property ladder
A young Russian migrant bought $1.7m of Auckland properties in 4 years, here's how.
![23yo's dream home: 'I almost lost hope'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=791)
23yo's dream home: 'I almost lost hope'
Aimee Russell started saving in high school to put together a $150,000 house deposit.