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A South Auckland food bank and drop-in centre in Manurewa is looking for a new home.

Food-price and household living-cost data used to create interactive price tracker.

Food-price and household living-cost data used to create interactive price tracker.

Herald interactive and Kiwi accounts show the impact of rising costs, inflation.

More than 10,500 people are displaced across the North Island, tens of thousands of people are without water and power, and there is soaring demand for food parcels in Auckland.

New Zealand has the highest homelessness rate per capita in the OECD and a decades-long housing crisis. As cost-of-living pressures mount, the issue is becoming highly political for Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

New Zealand has the highest homelessness rate per capita in the OECD and a decades-long housing crisis. As cost-of-living pressures mount, the issue is becoming highly political for Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

Police have identified two men filmed throwing food at a homeless person in central Auckland.  Recently a video showing an as-yet unidentified homeless per

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