Tag: Housing crisis

RNZ Pacific Opposition MPs and unions are criticising a proposal by New Zealand's Ministry of Pacific Peoples to cut staff by 40 percent. The country's largest...

From RNZ's Mata with Mihingarangi Forbes  Labour leader Chris Hipkins believes there are better ways to bring down the cost of housing, electricity and groceries...

Asia Pacific Report Opposition National Party deputy leader Nicola Willis was among three political leaders who made a surprising commitment at a debate last night...

COMMENTARY: By Chlöe Swarbrick In 1988, our National Housing Commission declared, “New Zealand does not have the huge, insoluble problems of homelessness and substandard housing...

ANALYSIS: By Susan St John, University of Auckland The Green Party made waves recently when it proposed to tax net wealth more than NZ$2 million...

By Ashleigh McCaull, RNZ Te Ao Māori news A fortnight after the floods in Tāmaki Makaurau and as Aotearoa New Zealand braces for Cyclone Gabriel...

ANALYSIS: By Richard Shaw, Massey University Well, no one saw that coming. For those in New Zealand relieved that Christmas was over because it means...

By Lucy Xia, RNZ Pacific Nearly 40 percent of Pacific people in Aotearoa New Zealand live in crowded homes -- almost four times that of...

By Stephen Forbes of Local Government Reporting A new $100 million apartment complex is coming to Manukau -- Auckland's heart of Pacific communities. But you'll have...

COMMENT: By John Minto Deception and political spin crossed new boundaries this week with Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, under pressure to explain the housing catastrophe...

ANALYSIS: By Dominic O'Sullivan, Charles Sturt University Crisis is a word often used in politics and the media -- the covid crisis, the housing crisis,...

ANALYSIS: By Claire Dale, University of Auckland A large number of New Zealanders are facing a perfect storm at retirement, with minimal savings and no...

ANALYSIS: By Brendon Blue for The Democracy Project The day after New Zealand's first lockdown was announced, I expressed to a senior colleague my concern...