At least 2 per cent of Housing New Zealand tenants are not eligible to live in a state house.

As most Kiwis head home, some have no homes to go to - but that is changing in Hamilton, which aims to end homelessness this year.

Housing New Zealand chief executive Glen Sowry reveals to Anne Gibson how his first career was as a sparky.

Proposals to rezone Auckland single-house areas for multiple and mixed housing zones has created a generational rift among Aucklanders.

Top public sector CEOs reap at least $50,000 in pay rises and bonuses.

A mould-infested house on the North Shore is being held up by the international press as an example of how heated Auckland's property market has become.

A man employed to test a HNZ property for meth ended up in hospital with severe wounds after being shut in the house's kitchen with two vicious dogs.

West Coast police say a real "upswing" in methamphetamine or P-related incidents has been noted across the region in the past 18 months.

Entrenched government disquiet with current urban planning practice is behind a further Productivity Commission inquiry into regulation of urban land.

Forging political consensus on the housing affordability challenge is an elusive task at best, reports Alexander Speirs.

The fall-out from the hot Auckland housing market has created contrasting impressions on the latest Mayoral Scorecard. The housing impact sits at the top and bottom of the rankings.

The government should be allowed to force local authorities to release land for urban development, says the latest work from the Productivity Commission.

Having lived a life on the streets, Sue Henry believes in the right to a home. She's been fighting for state housing tenants since the 1980s.

You can make a standard KiwiSaver first-home withdrawal without the additional top-up from the HomeStart grant. Helen Twose talks about the rules.

Syrian refugees Lilas and Basal Slik have been sleeping soundly this year for the first time in their lives.

Shocked residents of a quiet Porirua street are reeling after the grisly discovery of a neighbour's decomposing body weeks after he died on the floor of his home.

An Auckland woman who says her damp and mouldy state house caused her boy's medical woes has been offered alternative temporary accommodation.

"I think it goes against the New Zealand way when you target one ethnic group and say they're the problem, " says Housing Minister Nick Smith.

One of NZ's biggest off-site housing manufacturers is now in liquidation, but creditors have hope of getting paid.

Nearly half of the state houses assessed in a warrant of fitness trial were classed as "high risk" and in need of urgent repair, a new report shows.

A long-term contract to inspect all state houses for potential risks to health and safety was axed the year before two Auckland tenants died last winter.

Protected views of volcanoes are threatening Auckland's goals of affordable housing and a compact city, major property owners say.

New legislation, tabled in Parliament today, is designed to facilitate National's plan to sell up to 8000 state houses to community providers.

What remains unclear in this long, drawn-out "make-an-offer" phase is what the Government considers is the going price for a state house, writes Brian Rudman.

Bill English's willingness to allow a foreign housing provider to buy NZ state houses veers close to allowing blind ideology to get the better of common sense, says John Armstrong.

An Australian housing provider that is considering buying state houses here could use any money generated on projects across the Ditch, Prime Minister John Key says.

If Housing NZ has its way, no one will be able to easily say 'that's state housing' - see its latest plans for new Auckland homes.

Labour leader Andrew Little says there is no rational explanation for the Government's allowing an Australian housing provider to buy up to 500 state houses as part of housing reforms.