Special rapporteur says successive governments have contributed to what she called a ‘human rights crisis’
An Auckland property manager says she would be delighted to be able to cease providing emergency housing.
Auckland's housing crisis is now so bad the Mayor wants to try and convince people with empty investment properties to let homeless people live in them.
Empty homes are being touted as a possible solution for Auckland's struggling families. Auckland Council is talking to the Government about ways of using the thousands of "ghost houses" lying empty around the city.
Advertising an Auckland apartment as being in an area lacking homeless men or state tenants has been branded "totally insensitive".