An Otara house is on fire. The fire brigade is trying to extinguish it.

Labour plans to build a mix of new state houses and affordable houses in the Hutt.

Politicians are starting to refocus on emergency housing ahead of winter.

About 400 people joined in the protest during the weekend in Lower Hutt.

Church members will be camping out on vacant Housing NZ property over the weekend.

Pair kept up by parties & the sound of people having sex due to Queenstown's rent crisis.

Queenstown space so tight that tenants now being offered bunks and 'kind of' single rooms.

Families were woken by the racket of a noisy concrete pour at 5.30am as Auckland's frenzied building boom reaches fever pitch.

Glen Innes tenant Niki Rauti may seek rehearing after losing Tenancy Tribunal case.

A Glen Innes tenant battling against eviction from her former state house has put a surprising argument to the Tenancy Tribunal.

The Government is backing locally controlled urban development authorities to fight the slow speed of new city housing and infrastructure.

The High Court has approved a move for more than 400,000 extra homes across Auckland over the next 23 years, developers say.

Avondale and Mt Roskill could be next in line for large-scale housing projects, the Government says.

The gap between housing supply and demand in New Zealand is growing by 40 homes a day.

Hawke's Bay is facing a housing crisis with moteliers saying dozens of people squeezed out of emergency motel accommodation due to

Housing New Zealand has avoided being hauled back to Parliament to explain its incorrect figures on state houses.

Concerns about a lack of affordable Auckland housing and the high cost of building materials dominated a select committee today.

A tenant advocate is hailing the Government for adopting a more "compassionate" line with state house tenants who get involved with drugs.

But the redevelopment company evicting her say she has been offered five homes but she isn't cooperating.

An Auckland beneficiary is protesting this morning as she fights eviction from the two-bedroom state home she's lived in for 21 years.

New Zealand's politicians need to get the "guts" to introduce major reform aimed at tackling housing affordability, ACT Party leader David Seymour says.

Nearly 5000 people are now in the queue for social housing across the country.

Nuisance and aggressive dogs on Housing New Zealand properties generated 1515 complaints to the state housing provider last year - despite a strict no-dog policy.

A 71-year-old man on the waiting list for a state house said he was told to "live in his car and then call back" to speed up the process of getting a home.

Government's plan to sell hundreds of state houses to NGOs has hit another hurdle.

Emergency housing funding marks the Government's acceptance that it must ensure every New Zealander has adequate shelter.

The Government will buy up to three more motels and construct modular housing as part of a new $300 million investment in emergency housing.

A woman whose family has been homeless since August last year says Government's $300 million boost could go further "but it's great what they've done".

The Government has announced a major policy on emergency housing this afternoon.

Emergency services are at the scene of a serious house fire in South Auckland.