The Times-Age has seen letters to a tenant in a 100sq m house putting the rent up by $15 a week in April last year and $20 a week from March this year to $288 a week. "It's blimmen shocking, a lot are struggling and it's going to be soon a lot out on the street," one...

A concept rendering of one of the EasyBuild homes which will be built at Wesley Rātā Village in Naenae. The affordable rental homes are part of a development being run by Methodist organisation Wesley Community Action at Wesley Rātā Village in Naenae. The project was...

Kāpiti Coast District Mayor K Gurunathan has asked Council staff to do everything in their power to avoid the large family in Paraparaumu from being forced out of their Council-owned home with no-where to go. “This is a very unfortunate situation where the government...