Housing Crisis
Queenstown mayor on region's housing crisis
In Queenstown, hundreds of homes are available for short-term letting on platforms like Airbnb, but finding a permanent place in an affordable rental is hard work for the workers who keep the town's… Audio
Queenstown housing crisis: Renters' woes get more bizarre
Imagine being told by your landlord that the spare room is now an Airbnb. That's exactly the scenario which confronted a group of Queenstown renters last week.
A housing crisis in the area continues… Audio
Tiny houses face big barriers
Tiny house advocates say legislation, lending and land are prohibiting people from buying tiny homes. They say there is huge demand for the houses - and it could help solve the housing crisis if the… Audio
The Week in Detail: Policy scrambles, sorcery violence
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio
Tackling the housing crisis with a good indoor/outdoor flow
The housing crisis has been headline news for some years now. But Wellington artist and activist Heleyni Pratley wants to delve deeper and ask people to share their own stories about how it's… Audio
Midweek Mediawatch: Housing coverage contradictions
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… Audio
Midweek Mediawatch: Climate journalism that gets results
In this week's Midweek Mediawatch, Hayden Donnell talks to Karyn Hay about iffy info about the new Dr Who, a journalist making a change in policy on climate change; and an article echoing homeowners'… Audio
Midweek Mediawatch: A new angle on housing
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… Audio
Kiwi with the World Bank, tackling our housing crisis
Jane Henley left a senior job at the World Bank in Washington DC to return home to Aotearoa, where she's turned her energies to our housing crisis and the part off-site construction can play. She was… Audio
An anti-intensification housing media blitz
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. Audio
More children living in motels as housing crisis unrelenting
The government is running out of motels to place families in as the housing crisis reaches record levels, with children among those hardest hit.
There are now 4512 children living in motels - an… Audio
Is the Future of Housing in our own back yards?
Bill looks at the history of the backyard in New Zealand and how it's changed over the years. As the housing crisis continues, could our backyards be the perfect place to look for a solution? Bill… Audio
Is this Justice? Fewer new judges willing to move towns
Are the tentacles of the housing crisis now creeping their way into the justice sector?
Fewer new judges are willing to move towns after being appointed to the bench - a convention set up to reduce… Audio
Angela Scanlon: Making homeowners' wildest dreams a reality
Irish presenter and broadcaster Angela Scanlon is the host of the hugely popular Your Home Made Perfect television show. Audio
The Weekend Panel with Richard Harman and Brigitte Morten
Among other topics this morning, our Weekend panellists will be looking at the tough Covid-19 decisions, the disappearance of cash in society, the Winston Churchill painting from Parliament and the… Audio
Housing shortage harm 'the weight of the world'
The housing crisis is hitting Kaikohe so badly overcrowding is now the norm, not the exception, residents say.
The problem with economists' forecasts
The data is clear: economists' forecasts are often wrong. Given their track record, shouldn't these prognostications come with more caveats and disclaimers when they're broadcast by the media? Audio
The challenges of parenting adult children
It's a trend on the rise around the world - in the UK research into the "boomerang" phenomenon found two thirds of childless single adults aged 20 - 34 had either never left or moved back into the… Audio
The challenges of parenting adult children
It's a trend on the rise around the world - in the UK research into the "boomerang" phenomenon found two thirds of childless single adults aged 20 - 34 had either never left or moved back into the… Audio
Bernard Hickey on his most despairing and ugly column ever
Bernard Hickey coined a column he wrote last week the ugliest and most despairing he has ever written. Audio