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Only a third of boarding houses have sprinklers
Most buildings like Wellington's Loafers Lodge do not have sprinklers.
Inflation takes away gains from Labour’s Working for Families package
Inflation is eating away at people's benefits.
Opinion: We need to talk about young people and homelessness
What is more basic than food on the table, and a roof over your head?
Editorial: Poor suffer as the world churns
Opinion: Our editorial on the lasting effects of extreme weather on the poorest.
Opinion: Some home truths about poverty in NZ
Bill Capamagian: Help the deserving poor and stop pandering to the ratbags.
Peter Davis: A tale of two budgets
Opinion: New Zealand and the US face very different prospects in their Budget setting.
Local Focus: Meet the Nanas knitting for the Cool Kids
Knitting for Cool Kids Rotorua will be donating over 800 packs of hand knitted clothes.
Michael J Fox reveals unusual grocery habit
The "Back To The Future" star struggled to pay his bills.
Debt spiral: Record buy now pay later accounts in arrears
Centrix figures show more than 10 per cent of buy now pay later accounts in arrears.
Opinion: NZ fosters built-in poverty
Opinion: Social justice advocate shares some uncomfortable truths about hardship in NZ.
Cost of living: 300,000 more Kiwis worrying about money weekly
But it's the younger generation that are feeling most worried about money.
Housing, food security main issues for Northlanders as recession looms
Rising costs are set to add another $150 a week in expenses for households.
Hinemoa Elder's Super solution to child poverty
Opinion: A child and adolescent psychiatrist offers a simple solution.
Govt considered making child support ‘income’ for the child
It would have given parents more income and had a "greater impact" on child poverty.
Rising wait times for children's mental health assessments 'worrying'
'The need is way greater than the actual capacity to service that need'.
Max Rashbrooke: Verdict on this Govt’s child poverty action
OPINION: An economist measures the results so far and passes judgment.
Editorial: Indifference betrays our children
OPINION: Statistics on child poverty are evidence of NZ's failure.
Child poverty not improving, still 120,000 in material hardship
Statistics show gradual declines on most measures but campaigners say still too high.
Opinion: 'Lack of progress' - child poverty is not reducing, it's time for change
OPINION: Authors of longitudinal study 'Growing Up in NZ' respond to latest figures.
Brooke van Velden: Money’s too tight to mention
Households around NZ are tightening their belts - and Govt needs to as well.
Letters: Teacher’s strike, high living costs and co-governance
OPINION: Letters on rental property policies, education free fall, and Putin.
'My calling': Full-time volunteer reflects on nearly four-year stint helping homeless
Laura Wood has been leading the charitable trust since October 2019.
Women’s Day highlights eroded progress as 'patriarchy fights back'
Gender equality won’t be achieved for 300 years given the current pace of change: UN head.
UK govt admits tough new plan to stop Channel migrants 'pushes law'
“If you enter Britain illegally, you will be detained and swiftly removed,” govt says.
Cyclone Gabrielle worsens Gisborne’s housing crisis
More than 170 houses red or yellowed stickered in a city desperately short of housing.
Cyclone Gabrielle: National’s Christopher Luxon slams criminals, opposes ‘flood tax’
Christopher Luxon has hit out at the Government for downplaying crime fears.
Nigerian cash crisis brings pain to families
The shortage of cash means even basics like food and medicine are hard to get.
As the number of homeless in motels halves, locals say Rotorua's positive ‘vibe’ is returning
Rotorua residents say there's a positive impact of having fewer homeless living in motels.
Whanganui council setting up camp for homeless
The facility is an effort to move homeless people from freedom camping sites.
Opinion: Child poverty needs attention now
OPINION: United Nations' criticism of New Zealand should be a wake-up call.
'Appalling': Govt plans 350 homes on site it rejected for private development
'Without developments like this, reliance on emergency housing in Rotorua will continue.'
Auckland City Mission feeds 500 for Christmas
There was 120kg of ham and plenty of potato salad on the menu.
6000 tamariki and 600 whānau will have a very Merry Christmas
Dave's Army is making sure 6000 kids and 600 whānau have a Merry Christmas.