Housing

Officials are being accused of allowing unsafe cladding to be used on high-rise buildings. Leading Melbourne fire engineer, Tony Enright, is speaking out after the Ministry of Business, Innovation and… Audio

A one-bedroom apartment in a new affordable housing development in south Auckland could cost as much as half a million dollars. Three hundred homes are being built in in Manukau over the next five… Audio

Questions are being asked about the involvement of the New Plymouth Mayor in a meeting about the sale of reserve land in the city, including the transfer of 2.25 million dollars to a private golf… Video, Audio

Epsom MP David Seymour has doubled down on his contentious remarks, where he warned locals that some future tenants of an HNZ complex will have social and mental health issues. Video, Audio

Auckland Council is facing a big job policing 10,000 tonnes of Chinese steel going into the country's tallest residential skyscraper. A quality control expert is questioning whether its new rules… Audio

The Justice Minister Andrew Little says hundreds of people are being kept behind bars because the government's housing agency won't let them live with family in state houses. Housing New Zealand… Audio

Justice Minister Andrew Little says people on bail and parole are being routinely told they can't stay in a state houses so have to remain in prison, putting even more stress on an already strained… Video, Audio

Property could be a buyer's market before long as rises in value are expected to stabilise over the coming months. Audio

$142 million was set aside in last week's budget to subsidise insulation in 52 thousand homes over the next four years, administered by the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority. But a similar… Audio

Newly released documents show multiple serious failings by senior officials at Middlemore Hopsital who pushed ahead with building a big lecture theatre instead of more operating theatres. They also… Audio

The Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis says the Government won't go ahead with plans for a megaprison at Waikeria in Waikato.

In last week's budget, more funds were allocated to build temporary units… Audio

Housing Minister Phil Twyford says the shortage of homes especially in Auckland will get worse, despite what he calls the biggest investment yet in public housing. He met today with 100… Audio