The Government's goal of building 2000 new state houses in two years has been questioned after it was revealed that it had built only 68 homes in the past year.

Bill English should look into a mirror next time he points the finger at Auckland Council for not doing enough to encourage affordable housing, writes Brian Rudman.

Two tenants who moved into their Auckland state house two years after the start of World War II are still living there - more than 70 years later.

An Auckland woman who lived in New Zealand's most expensive state house has been sentenced to nine months home detention for benefit fraud.

First-home buyers say they are being shut out of the Auckland property market as prices skyrocket. Where can house-hunters still buy for under $500,000?

A woman living in the country's most valuable state house cheated WINZ out of more than $88,000 by hiding her relationship for six years.

Editorial: It is hardly surprisingly that many state-house tenants in Glen Innes are angry about being asked to leave homes they have inhabited for years.

Housing NZ spent $1.6 million on security firms last year for work which included monitoring about 355 houses which were sitting empty waiting for tenants.

Some tenants of million-dollar state homes in some of Auckland's most exclusive suburbs are paying just $50 a week in rent, according to figures obtained by the Herald.

Tenants of New Zealand's most expensive state house - with sweeping views over Auckland's harbour - have been ordered out after one was convicted of benefit fraud.

New Zealand Defence Force staff are in line for a $45 million pay rise - but rents for those living in defence accommodation will also be increasing.

In 2004 the Govt closed seven small Northland schools. Alan Perrott and Steven McNicholl return to find out what happened.

Every winter, Taleni Lafo has to take her two young children to hospital because they become sick from the cold.