Government has revealed which Auckland suburbs will get more houses before 2020.

National's plan to build 34,000 new homes completes a major housing turnaround.

The longest and last tenant in the derelict Jebson Place is leaving on Thursday.

Amy Adams' promotion shows National is bracing for a fight on housing.

A teacher is on trial for allegedly indecently assaulting a disabled woman in her home.

Two neighbours banged frantically on doors, walls as fire consumed the house.

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.

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 homeless mother-of-six couldn't find any motel room in Auckland yesterday.

A house fire which claimed two lives has been linked to "spotting cannabis".

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.

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.

An Auckland state house tenant has escaped eviction for growing and smoking marijuana for pain relief.

Owners of state house where Glen Innes tenant is staging protest says it offered her several homes to move into in the area, including a brand new home.

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.