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.

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

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.

Housing New Zealand says it has only evicted five tenants from state houses on the grounds that their homes were contaminated by methamphetamine.

Details of a house fire in Onehunga where a 6-year-old girl perished and her six siblings survived have been revealed by the Coroner.

A youth was shot directly outside her gate, but Housing New Zealand would not find her and her three young children a new home.

The Government's state housing agency is set to run out of money by February, ministers have been warned.

Mihi Dahm thought she was going to have to move her five children into a tent until Whare Tauranga stepped in to help. Things are

Teri Standen was re-housed from Auckland to Hamilton with a $3510 Government relocation grant but says it was the worst decision of her life.

One month after their mother died of cancer, four Birkenhead children face becoming homeless on Saturday unless they can get a state house.

Parties at loggerheads over plans for Three Kings quarry must now meet and attempt a resolution.

Marae, women's refuges and other social agencies have won funding to house 3000 homeless families and individuals a year in the latest

Housing NZ has bought a motel to help meet the area's housing shortage - but the existing residents will have to move out to make room for the homeless.

An Auckland man has been found guilty of setting his dogs on a man employed by Housing New Zealand to test properties property for

Getting rough sleepers off the street could have a net economic benefit in NZ, an Opposition-led inquiry into homelessness has heard.

HomeStart grant is aimed at helping people on modest incomes to buy modest homes, so its application form takes a good hard look at your finances.

A family living in a South Auckland garage faces eviction in October because the landlord converted it into a flat without a council permit.

Housing NZ is accused of "creating homelessness" after applying to evict one out of every 25 tenants in the past year.

A huge jump in more intensive housing permitted in central Auckland may be the breakthrough frustrated first home buyers have been looking for.

The official waiting list for social housing has started rising again for the first time since the list was transferred to Work and Income two years ago.

Orlando Shepherd appeared in Manukau District Court this afternoon to be sentenced for owning a dog that attacked a person.