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.

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.

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.

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.

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.