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Data on housing is surreal if you own a home, depressing if you don't. How did we get to this stage?

The housing market continues to defy predictions of a post-Covid slump, with prices hitting new records around the country and RNZ Political Editor Jane Patterson asks: what is the Government going to do about it?

In the push to get more people living in higher density housing, have our fire and building regulations been left behind?

Christchurch is saying 'no' to the government's new housing density rules. Has the whole thing backfired?

Housing advocates and those supporting homeless youth say it's now near impossible to get into emergency housing. The coalition celebrated reducing the number of households in emergency motels by 75 per cent - a target it's met five years early. But critics say homelessness has increased as a result of tougher rules. In Focus on Politics, RNZ Political Reporter Lillian Hanly takes a look at access to emergency housing, after the government tightened its criteria last August.

It's one of our top tourist destinations, but Rotorua locals are worried about the proliferation of city motels being used for emergency housing - with no end in sight.

The Government has announced a raft of measures to try and tackle the housing affordability crisis to tilt the market towards first home buyers and increase supply. But, as RNZ political reporter Charlie Dreaver reports, not everyone is convinced it will be enough to help stop runaway house prices.

Midweek Mediawatch: Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about alternative approaches to stories about our housing and transport problems - and news media getting a green light to try and get Facebook and Google around the table.

Using natural build techniques, a group of Takaka-based social entrepreneurs are excited about getting closer to the finish line of their cohousing project in development. Produced by Kadambari Raghukumar.

Whether its about the lack of it, the quality of it, or the cost of it, discussions about housing are omnipresent at Parliament. This week, both Housing Ministers sat down in front of MPs for a session of explain and answer on the topic.

The new bipartisan bill on housing intensification was welcomed by all - until the detail was revealed.

Mediawatch's weekly catch-up with Lately: Hayden Donnell chats to Susana Lei'ataua about the new Metro adding momentum to the comeback of local magazines; stories of housing hell hogging headlines; criticism of the not-so-cool capital piles up; the 'boomer ' slur debate - and the watchdog's verdict on 'Karen.'

Opponents of the bipartisan bill aimed at enabling housing blitzed the media over the past few weeks. Many of the reports failed to include relevant context and balancing opinion.

After a rebuild was cancelled, the former tenants of a social housing development in Auckland have seemingly 'disappeared'

New Zealand is building a new generation of unsustainable housing - tens of thousands of homes that will put out carbon emissions five times higher than levels set by the Paris agreement.

Holiday homes sit empty while local families live in cars and on deteriorating boats.

In a time when the country is concentrating on well-being, our mental health facilities are crumbling and overcrowded.

A squadron of investors and economists blitzed the airwaves following the government's big housing announcement, often drowning out other voices.

Midweek Mediawatch: Hayden Donnell talked to Bryan Crump about a TVNZ emergency housing expose that also raised questions about coverage of the issue - and how the Herald set the record straight on a headline-making lockdown breach last year. Also - a Mediawatch prediction that fell flat - and breaking news about Bryan himself.

A growing population, cities straining at the edges, and everyone wants a back yard for the kids. Or do they? We may have reached the stage where a change of mindset is helping to house people.

It's a housing crisis of a different kind - house prices are falling and interest rates are rising.

Housing affordability has plagued New Zealand for decades. What needs to change?

By Eric Trump: Is co-housing a wiser use of resources and a counter to societal ills like loneliness?

Is Kāinga Ora, the government's social housing arm, a total mess or a 'stonking financial success'?

How do some of society's most vulnerable people - men in particular - fall into insecure housing?