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Man left homeless by agency
A judge has told the state housing agency it was "not helpful" to evict a vulnerable tenant who had nowhere to go.

Evicted: State house tenant with $250,000 cars
A sickness beneficiary acquitted of money laundering and methamphetamine charges this week after a lengthy trial has been evicted from his taxpayer-subsidised state home.

Is Auckland bad for your kids?
One in five children is overweight; one in 12 is obese, and kids in urban areas are walking to school less.

Boarding house horrors
Children are living in tiny, damp and sometimes squalid boarding houses, while Housing NZ staff are discouraging people who are seeking help from formally registering their need, saying they have no business interfering.

Investors sue Govt and council over leaks
Angry unit owners condemn PPP model promoted as future of state housing

Christchurch earthquake: Towns give shelter to shaken refugees
Timaru has grown by 20 per cent as 7000 traumatised quake survivors shift down.

Borrowing soars as deficit tops $15 billion
English confident of return to surplus, but spending limits will have to stay.

Man rescues children from house fire
A man who rescued two of his children from a house fire last night was lucky to escape with only burns to his hand, the Fire Service says.

'State house for life' axed in review plan
State house tenants would face eviction if a review decided they no longer needed public housing, under a proposed Govt plan.

A new era in affordable housing
The Govt has opened its first 'simple house', its answer to streamlining the design and build process for first-time buyers.

Govt hopes to have quake land plan by next week
The Government hopes it will be able to give thousands of Canterbury property owners in the worst earthquake-hit areas some idea of what the future holds by the middle of next week.