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Capital's tight rental market pushes emergency grants to $1m
Quarterly spend on grants cracks a million dollars, numbers skyrocket in 18 months.

Our dark history of abuse in care - inside the first hearing
Inside the first proper hearing of the Royal Commission into Abuse in Care.

Generous pensioners give their Winter Energy Payment to charity
The couple are frugal power users and feared "making money" from the payment.

Salvation Army to trial free GP clinic in West Auckland
The Salvation Army will hold the clinic once a week over July at their Waitākere centre.

Rents 'skyrocket' while millions is spent on emergency housing
Millions of dollars is being spent on emergency housing as Rotorua rents skyrocket.

Free firewood a winter warmer in Whangārei
The Salvation Army's distribution of firewood to needy families is cutting power bills.

Would you live here? Garage renos aimed at vulnerable tenants
Garage conversions add value to a house sale, but have been described as "exploitation".

Housing revolution? Buying a home with a $500 deposit
Could the refreshed KiwiBuild scheme include a rent-to-own option?

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.

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.