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Housing crisis: I'm scared my kids are going to live that same struggle
Glen Innes residents say they feel housing redevelopments are threatening their community, and tell researchers of struggles with homelessness and overcrowding.
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Housing crisis: I'm scared my kids are going to live that same struggle
Glen Innes residents say they feel housing redevelopments are threatening their community, and tell researchers of struggles with homelessness and overcrowding.
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Housing crisis: 'I've rung hundreds of places to ask, you just get shut down'
The government's pumping $300 million into tackling homelessness in New Zealand - but details on where new properties will come from remain scant. Audio
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New Helen Clark Foundation report urges Capital Gains Tax
The study said a decades-long boom in property investment had driven up housing and land prices at the expense of families and people's basic need for shelter.
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Homelessness: Emergency housing firm welcomes govt action plan
An Auckland property manager says she would be delighted to be able to get out of providing emergency housing, as the government ramps up its efforts on homelessness. Audio
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Hurimoana Dennis discusses Govt homelessness package
The government has unveiled a $300 million action plan to tackle homelessness, and stop relying on motels to house people.
It includes $175 million for an extra 1000 transitional housing places by… Audio
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Govt housing plan labelled a 'major breakthrough' to crisis
A $300 million plan to tackle homelesness is being described as a major breakthrough in the housing crisis.
The Prime Minister has unveiled the plan to create an extra 1000 nplaces to stay by the end… Audio
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Housing crisis: 'I've rung hundreds of places to ask, you just get shut down'
The government's pumping $300 million into tackling homelessness in New Zealand - but details on where new properties will come from remain scant. Audio
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Housing crisis: 'I've rung hundreds of places to ask, you just get shut down'
The government has announced a $300 million package to tackle homelessness. It cannot come soon enough for an Auckland mother and her six children who are desperate for somewhere to live after their… Audio
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Govt announces $300m homelessness action plan
The government is ramping up its efforts to stop using motels for emergency housing, announcing an extra 1000 transitional housing places will be ready by the end of the year.
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Oscars 2020: Life lessons from Europe's last wild beekeeper
One of the more unlikely films competing in this weekend's Oscars is a fascinating story about a wild beekeeper in the Balkans. Honeyland has a strong ecological message, but it's the life story of…
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Coronavirus kills Chinese whistleblower doctor
The hospital in Wuhan treating Li Wenliang has confirmed his death after a day of confused reports.
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'It's time for New Zealand to wake up to its poverty problem'
Multiple siblings sharing a single school uniform. School kids living with their families in cars. They are stories that sound as though they are from another place but sadly these are first-hand… Audio
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$700m boost: Council boss heralds new era of growth for Whangarei
The face of Whangarei is set to change dramatically in the next decade in the wake of the Government's $700 million Northland roading and rail infrastructure spend.
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Race Relations Commissioner blasts Coronavirus beer promotion
The Race Relations Commissioner has accused a Hamilton bar of cashing-in on the Coronavirus crisis.
The House on Hood Bar advertised discount corona beers for as long as the Cornoavirus outbreak… Audio
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Hamilton bar's Coronavirus beer promotion strikes a sour note
A Hamilton bar has been accused of cashing-in on a crisis by the Race Relations Commissioner.
The House on Hood Bar advertised discount Corona beers for as long as the Coronavirus outbreak lasts.
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Masterton house prices soar out of reach, no state homes available
The pressure of the housing crisis is taking its toll on Masterton, where demand for an affordable place to live has gone through the roof.
There are no state houses in Wairarapa - and the only… Video, Audio
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Australia readies for more bushfires with temperatures set to soar
Australian officials have warned communities to strengthen bushfire defences as soaring temperatures and strong winds were set to return, threatening to reignite some blazes and start fresh ones.
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Bougainville consultation period critical, says former combatant
A member of the team consulting on Bougainville's future says the post-referendum path must be managed carefully.
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Trump decries 'prophets of doom' on environment
The US president attacks activists at the World Economic Forum, with Greta Thunberg in the audience.
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MP calls for inquiry into Samoa's measles epidemic
Samoan Opposition MP Olo Fiti Va'ai has repeated his call for the government to launch an inquiry into the country's measles epidemic, which claimed 83 lives.
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'A real and urgent need' for more housing
Red tape, inflated land prices, rock-bottom interest rates, migration and speculation are fuelling New Zealand's runaway property market.
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Meghan's dad says Harry and his daughter are destroyers while UK offers support
Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the UK will want to wish the Duke and Duchess of Sussex well for the future while Meghan's father, Thomas Markle, accused the couple of "destroying" the royal family.
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NZ First-linked company in govt loan bid says it met with Jones
A forestry company with close links to NZ First says it gave a presentation to Shane Jones about a project it was seeking a $15 million government loan for - months before Jones says he first heard of…
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High house prices 'a threat to the middle class'
Nurses, teachers and other middle class professionals are increasingly unable to buy homes in the cities where they work, with every housing market in the country now rated "severely unaffordable".
