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Garage conversions add value to a house sale, but have been described as "exploitation".
Housing revolution? Buying a home with a $500 deposit
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Fears Wellington social housing land will be privatised
Should there be space for affordable homes in Wellington's Arlington redevelopment?
Letters: A glut of city bottle shops
The police and Medical Officer of Health didn't oppose the application. Where was our MP?
Brian Rudman: Leave Israel Folau out of hate speech heat
COMMENT: Banning Folau risks creating new martyrs and threatens our free speech tradition.
Future youth leader among those attending youth camp
Young Northlanders join thousands at Youth Camp
Submissions strongly oppose euthanasia bill
Euthanasia bill backers say scientific polls a better judge of opinion than submissions.
Sallies fight back against predatory shopping trucks
The Sallies were tired of 'rip-off' shopping trucks. So they made their own.
Joe and Elvor start a rising tsunami of support
More friends for elderly folks who just need company. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Editorial: Sallies give timely warning on P
Comment: Salvation Army gives a timely warning about methamphetamine.
The Sallies have spoken: Welfare reform is urgent
The Salvation Army has told us we're doing welfare wrong. How are we going to fix that?
The 'relentless' rise of P in New Zealand: 'This is becoming a plague'
Meth-related offending has now overtaken cannabis in New Zealand.
Salvation Army worker who found gnome thought it was a joke
Neil Arnold arrived for work this morning when he found the gnome.
Happy Christmas: Weird items donated in charity's appeal
From bloody knives, strange food items and dolls with their heads shaved.
New food parcel hub launched in Lower Hutt
About 17,000 families will need help this Christmas period.
Wishes grow on trees for 25 years
Twenty-five years of Wishing Trees at Kmart. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Gifts from Prime Minister well received, and symbolic of commitment
Prime Minister's symbolic gifts appreciated, play by children well received
Looming crisis in housing for elderly
Audine Robson is sharing a large Auckland home with 11 other pensioners.
Sallies welcome adoption inquiry
"We would welcome any inquiry that would bring people healing."
Meet Stephen the reo Māori speaker
"If you didn't know Stephen, you would think he's Māori." Made with funding from NZ On Air
New housing project will provide accommodation for over 150 homeless people
"A particularly nice way of using existing housing but re-purposing it to meet the need."
Business group says 'no' to rough sleepers re-run
Business group says no to rough-sleeper project declared a success by councillor.
Budget a good start but more needed to fix twin plagues, say Sallies and Union
Funding for housing and addressing child poverty a good start some say, but more is needed
Hawkesby: The alarming rise of the working poor
COMMENT: People having to choose to pay rent over buying food is heartbreaking.
Poverty still disadvantaging too many kids
EDITORIAL: After years of reports and investigations, is anything actually changing?
100k Kiwi kids living in severe poverty
Demand from families today is worse than during the recession - Salvation Army
Over 330 new families need help every week - Salvation Army
Poverty is reaching "crisis" levels in New Zealand.
Murder mystery: Deathbed confession of Kiwi serial killer
Deathbed confession finally offered resolution to violent deaths of Wairoa sisters.
Millionaire NZ tycoon and air-crash survivor you won't have heard of
Former Soviet agent-turned-preacher a recipient of Aucklander's giving.
First new state houses for Whanganui in decades
New state houses being built in Whanganui are to be ready to occupy by mid-year.
Editorial: Re-think on state housing to be applauded
New houses represent a U-turn by Housing NZ -- and it is most welcome.
How Fiji evacuation plan saved lives
The entire population of two islands took shelter in evacuation centres.
Brian Rudman: Twyford hits own thumb with hammer
COMMENT: Politicians have long known the risks of sharing the stage with babies and pets.