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.

Housing New Zealand considered using an insurance payout for Christchurch earthquake damage to meet an unexpected demand to pay higher dividends to the Government in 2011, official letters disclose.

A rock and a ball were thrown at PM John Key's limousine in the Napier suburb of Maraenui yesterday. Police arrested a 22-year-old Napier man following the incident and charged him with disorderly behaviour.

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.

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.

'There's not a rental shortage, there's a lack of etiquette." Landlords have had enough of the 'feral' behaviour of prospective tenants they're refusing to rent.

'I'm a grown woman - I feel discriminated against.' Housing NZ is tightening the leash around allowing dogs in state houses, and tenants are unimpressed.

First-home buyers have snapped up a quarter of the vacant state houses put up for sale by the Govt, some for under $100,000.

Residents of an inner-Auckland pensioner flat complex are shocked that their landlord Housing NZ is trying to interest developers in a real estate deal.

Changes in design, funding and land use will deliver healthy, sustainable communities, writes Glen Sowry.

Housing NZ is looking at security at one of its houses after an 83-year-old former priest was hit over the head with a porcelain tea pot on Halloween.

Builders may be forced to disclose any gifts they receive as rewards for buying building products as part of govt moves to drive down building material costs.

A former Housing New Zealand tenant who claimed to have raised $1 million to buy her home has been ordered to pay back $39,000.

When Housing NZ told Bella Bowden it wanted to put the state house she called home on the market, it started a chain of events that has now reached the courts.

Farm paddocks are not there to sprout houses, Franklin Local Board chairman Andy Baker told a meeting to wrap up the new planning rulebook for the city this morning.

A new heritage rule that controls the demolition of pre-1944 houses has got the nod from the Auckland Council.

Labour has accused Housing Minister Nick Smith of owing $10,800 in rent for "squatting" in a ministerial house after he resigned as a minister.

A heavy burden rests on Nathan Marsters' young shoulders - but finding a place for his grieving family to live is no longer one of them.

New rules for KiwiSaver subsidies to help people buy their first homes will help middle-class couples but will knock out lower-income families.

Papakura couple Junior and Kim Sipeli have missed out on a $10,000 gift from the Government because they bought their first house two months too soon.