The strength of Nick Smith's language in his savaging of the RMA prompted immediate concern in the environmental lobby he was trying to manufacture a crisis where there wasn't one.

Auckland Council is targeting its 1400 pensioner housing tenants to help solve its financial squeeze through an average 20 per cent rent increase.

The number of people sleeping rough in Auckland's streets and parks has more than doubled as the city's housing crisis deepens.

The Government's Auckland Housing Accord aims to relieve the city's desperate housing shortage with 39,000 new homes, but only 350 residences have so far been built.

Mt Albert residents have upped the ante in their opposition to Housing New Zealand's plans for a Special Housing Area in their suburb.

Residents of a quiet no-exit Meadowbank street where homes are worth up to $1.9 million are angry Housing New Zealand plans to "slap down" 14 units in their midst.

Housing New Zealand has quietly dumped a $377 million programme to add new bedrooms to existing state houses and build hundreds of new homes on subdivided sections.

Hundreds of new homes will be developed on Housing Corporation land in some Auckland suburbs, including Avondale, New Lynn and South Auckland.

A toddler revived by firefighters after being pulled from his burning home is fighting for his life in Middlemore Hospital.

A beneficiary has been awarded more than $20,000 after Housing New Zealand was found to have been over-collecting private information about him.

Four Housing New Zealand families have been forced from their Stokes Valley homes overnight following a suspicious fire.

The Tenancy Tribunal has given no reprieve to a Glen Innes Housing New Zealand tenant who will be evicted at the end of January.

The market has proven itself absolutely useless at housing the poor, the mentally ill, and the elderly - and anyone else who hasn't got $50k in the bank, writes Dita De Boni.

Housing New Zealand wants to allay local fears about the development of a big Mt Albert site, saying high-quality places are being planned for the land.

A carve-up of the housing portfolio in the new Cabinet has alerted the country to a radical reform the Government has in mind for state housing.

Mt Albert residents are up in arms against a Housing New Zealand project, fearing a 34-unit site will soon have 80 apartments.

Owners of inner-city apartments believe their buildings are being used as "halfway homes" by Housing NZ - leaving them scared to use lifts, foyers and facilities.

The Govt will try to dig itself out of the Dirty Politics mire when it unveils a housing policy today expected to target Kiwis struggling to enter the property market.

100 low-income families were asked what they needed to get out of poverty. Here are their answers.

Housing New Zealand wants to lift building restrictions around hundreds of its historic and "special character" homes across Auckland to allow for development.

State-owned houses in some of Auckland's most expensive suburbs have been left unoccupied and "deteriorating" for up to 18 months.

A 59-year-old beneficiary with heart problems has become the first Glen Innes tenant to vow to fight an eviction notice as a new mixed housing development gathers pace.

The family of a young boy killed on his way to a park after being struck by a car are upset Housing NZ dug up their front lawn, leaving their children without anywhere safe to play.

A handful of Auckland pensioners have stopped developers in their tracks.

More than 90 per cent of New Zealand rental homes inspected in a pilot warrant of fitness test failed to pass.

A Dunedin woman says she has been waiting more than four years to have her state house insulated but contractors will not tackle it because of mould under the floor.