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.

'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.

The house on the corner site in Taniwha St, Glen Innes, is a case study of everything Housing NZ says is wrong with its state housing stock.

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.

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.

Housing New Zealand says its heritage Symonds St Flats in central Auckland have leaks and all 34 tenants must leave to allow repairs or refurbishment.

Social housing providers are objecting to Government plans to review all social housing tenancies every three years including homes run by private providers.

Mana Party leader Hone Harawira has been found guilty of failing to comply with a police instruction at an Auckland housing protest last year.

MP Hone Harawira denies a charge which followed a housing protest, saying he was using his car lights to protect three women on a roof.

Video footage of chaotic scenes at an Auckland housing protest in which Mana Party leader Hone Harawira was arrested last year has been played to a court.

Calls of "shame" greeted Housing Minister Nick Smith when he arrived in Glen Innes to launch a redevelopment plan for the Tamaki area.

As a teenager growing up in Wellington I was captivated by the exploits of Peter Blake and his Ceramco New Zealand crew in the Whitbread race.

Cold and damp conditions are adding to health problems, including pneumonia and tuberculosis, faced by residents of overcrowded homes.