The lethal truth about online abuse
OPINION: Disagree by all means, but nasty personal attacks are out of line.
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Funding boost to house the city's homeless
$10m grant to help provide new homes for Auckland city's homeless.
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Ahead of World Homeless Day tomorrow we meet the Auckland Street Choir.
Does mixing more really tackle prejudice?
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Streetlife: Incredible portraits of homeless
Walking the streets with an iPhone to capture the face of the homeless.
Librarian baulks at housing homeless during the day
A Christchurch librarian is not keen to see an influx of homeless in libraries.
House sitters beat the housing crisis
There is a way for those without a home to have a place to lay their heads.
Q&A: Predator-free NZ's tricky ethical issues
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Living wage policies show National's true face
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Paul Little: Vote for the NZ you want
OPINION: We want to live in a society where no child arrives in a world of uncertainty.
Girls as young as 12 caught in sex trafficking web in NZ
Young girls are falling prey to traffickers trapping them in a seedy underbelly.
Deborah Hill Cone: The true secret to wealth
COMMENT: I get the feeling it is increasingly awkward being seen to be rich these days.
Wards of the state turn to streets to make ends meet
Authors' look at struggle finds sisters separated at birth turned to the streets.
Struggling teen couple find a home
Teen couple have been given a chance and a house by a young Aucklander.
Could Rotorua end up with four MPs?
If the latest Reid Research poll bears out, Rotorua could have four MPs after the election
Editorial: Child poverty targets too easy
EDITORIAL: Both main parties have put a figure on poverty reduction, but will it help?
Wait-list growing for a roof overhead
What are parties promising on social housing?
'End toxic Winz culture' - beneficiaries
Beneficiaries call for higher benefits and an end to Work and Income's "toxic culture".
Local Focus: No more Te Kuiti Campground
Residents struggling to find somewhere to live. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Hope for Auckland's homeless
Plans for a new housing and community complex in Auckland city a long time coming.
Susan St John: Real cash injection needed to curb child poverty
COMMENT: Fixing up the damage of child poverty will be enormously costly.
UN backs probe into state care abuse in NZ
Maori Party and Labour call for probe after UN investigation into NZ abuse record.
Crowded, damp homes killing 20 kids every year
As soon as it gets cold, hospitals struggle with 'waves' of sick children.
No place to call home: Teen couple face sleeping in car
Auckland teens face homelessness after having at least 10 rental applications rejected.
Suicides in NZ highest since records began
Deaths by suicide rose to over 600 last year for the first time in recorded history.
Right words can reach truculent boys
COMMENT: The right words can get through to the most truculent youths.
Toppling statues not the answer
Opinion: Charlottesville racists are being picked off by the Internet - for good.
Chef banishes a kitchen nightmare
Jamie Oliver has opened up about healthy food, Kiwi politics and his NZ plans
Lizzie Marvelly: School delivers one-two punch
OPINION: Teach students how to navigate a social event without the buffer of a partner.
Dying with soulmate a 'good death'
A terminally ill man is spending his last days campaigning for the right to die.
Heartbeat: Dreams lost and found in Thames
Thames can be a place of opportunity, residents say.
Election Policy Series: Euthanasia, anti-smacking and state care
A look at where the parties are on key social issues.