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.

Housing Minister Nick Smith was shouted down when he claimed at a forum on Auckland's housing crisis that foreign buyers weren't impacting on prices.

Housing affordability is again under the spotlight with new international research putting NZ's housing among the most overvalued in the developed world.

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.

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.

An Auckland mother with terminal cancer who is sharing a two-bedroom flat with her four sons is worried they won't cope in the small space as her condition deteriorates.

A leader of Auckland's disabled community believes she may be in the first batch of 800 state house tenants being targeted for possible eviction.

City planners are eyeing almost 16,000 new homes across Greater Auckland - the equivalent of a town the size of Cambridge - to attack the city's housing shortage.

A Housing New Zealand apartment complex has opened in Auckland and already received praise from its mostly elderly residents.

A Bay of Plenty iwi is in talks with the Govt to buy state houses in its area that it says would be used to house Maori and Pakeha.

Auckland's historic Greys Ave flats will be refurbished, but the carpark behind them may be sold off for commercial development.

State house tenants in many parts of Auckland will have to move, at least temporarily, as Housing New Zealand ramps up an aggressive programme of redeveloping some of its oldest and highest-value sites.

About 4000 state house tenants who are paying market rents are likely to be the first required to leave when Housing New Zealand's "house for life" policy ends on April 14.

A $120 million housing project at Weymouth is being touted as a "pathfinder" for what could be New Zealand's first large-scale affordable new housing project in 30 years.

Thousands of tenants behind in their rent will soon be under more pressure, claim critics of a new system designed to cut the time taken to resolve disputes.

A Dunedin state housing tenant and the SPCA want Housing New Zealand to reconsider its dog policy.

Housing New Zealand has rejected claims it has a new plan to evict dogs from state homes.