In this article macro-economist, Shamubeel Eaqub, talks about the role of local authorities in the provision of social housing.
The Minister for Social Housing recently announced $41.1 million over four years for emergency housing. This will mean emergency housing provision will be funded in a different way.
Last month the Auckland Rough Sleepers Initiative conducted its 10th street count and found numbers have increased.
At least one in every 100 New Zealanders were homeless at the latest census in 2013, compared with 1 in 120 in 2006, and 1 in 130 in 2001, say University of Otago, Wellington (UOW) researchers.
Prime Minister John Key's suggestion that Auckland Council could be forced to free up more land for housing whenever homes became unaffordable in the city is already being criticised as misguided and unlikely to help the city's housing woes.
The Government has put on hold the sale of Housing New Zealand homes in Invercargill after PACT pulls out of the process.
Te Puea Marae in Mangere started taking in the homeless last week and so far has found homes for four of the 45 families who have sought help.
Community Housing Aotearoa Chief Executive Scott Figenshow says there is some good news in the budget but the Government has not gone far enough to deliver coordinated solutions that work.
Economist Geoff Simmons of the Morgan Foundation talks about the housing crisis and 'ghost' houses to Jessie Mulligan on Radio New Zealand.
2016-17 Budget: Where’s the investment in housing?
