Renting in New Zealand: perspectives from tenant advocates

Renting in New Zealand: perspectives from tenant advocates

This article presents key themes generated from semi-structured interviews with tenant advocates. Tenants are confronted with issues of poor housing quality, insecure housing, high rents relative to income, lack of autonomy and difficulty asserting their legislative...

Government urged to take human rights approach to house building

Community Housing Aotearoa, the representative body for New Zealand’s community housing sector, welcomes the Government’s Housing Stocktake Report highlighting the challenges the housing sector faces. Chief Executive Scott Figenshow says the stocktake is an essential...