Housing

A mayoral taskforce is recommending a raft of changes to cover the $19 billion cost of getting the city's growing population into homes over the next three decades.

A Nelson resident says the city council is using a back-door way to build more houses that are unlikely to be affordable anyway.

Wellington's mayor believes he has found the right place to set up the country's first wet house for alcoholics and drug addicts.

Property investors say they don't want debt-to-income restrictions on home lending to apply to them.

An Auckland community housing developer is furious a plan to build hundreds of houses in Manukau has collapsed at the last minute after the council rejected its offer.

An urgent plea has gone out for financial help to strengthen apartment buildings in Wellington to make them earthquake-resilient.

Sixty percent of Auckland home owners have mortgages greater than five times their income, the Reserve Bank says.

Bill English denies there is a housing crisis in Auckland but seven years ago he privately warned a major crisis was looming, a senior Salvation Army official says, Audio

United Future has a new rent-to-own housing policy that would help people buy homes built under the government's affordable housing scheme in Auckland.

Developers and social housing providers are applauding an initiative to turn under-utilised inner city buildings into social and affordable apartments. Audio

Houses would cost half as much if prices stayed somewhere near Consumer Price Index inflation - as they did for 40 years before 2001 - a report has found.

The government plans to build more than 500 new social and temporary homes in Bay of Plenty over the next three years.