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"It costs me $40 a week to live in my house."

Greens say too many people spend too much of their income on rent.

Rotorua's mayor wants urgent action to ensure long-term accommodation buildings are safe after the Loafers Lodge fire in Wellington last month which claimed five lives.

Average rent on newly tenanted homes increased by $25 a week in the year to April

Falling house prices and rising rents have pushed up yields for investors - but they're still woefully inadequate

Some accommodation providers have been described as unsafe.

Median rent in Queenstown-Lakes up by $110 a week, Auckland unchanged from a year ago

The building director says tenants will get their bonds back, but he does not know when.

Some tenants who lost everything in the blaze need the money to make a new start.

A rental property manager stole more than $9000 from her Alexandra employer over two years before her offending came to light. When Shelley Ann...