Homelessness

Lockdown temporarily eliminated rough sleeping in New Zealand - but what's the long-term solution? Audio

The true extent of Kiwis in insecure housing was exposed during the Covid 19 response leading to calls for a national homelessness strategy and to make housing a legal right. Audio

As more cases of Covid-19 arise, people are being cautioned to work from home or stay home if sick, but what if you don't have a home?

Agencies working with the homeless community worry that people… Audio

Auckland's Hobson Street Theatre Company, whose actors have all experienced homelessness, is representing New Zealand at an international Arts Festival held every three years in Rotterdam. The… Audio

Three Minutes Max on a Sunday morning, short, sharp opinions from New Zealanders about issues that concern them, and sometimes all of us. Here's Tommy Kapai Wilson on the unfair treatment of Oranga… Audio

Community services manager for social services provider Lifewise, Peter Shimwell, joins the discussion on the government's plans to tackle homelessness and stop using motels as emergency housing. Audio

The government wants to stop relying on motels for emergency housing - but it won't stop using them entirely.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and housing ministers Megan Woods and Kris Faafoi, have… Audio

A controversial bylaw that bans begging and rough sleeping in the parts of Tauranga is under the microscope after a local housing advocacy group instructed its lawyers to get the judicial review it… Audio

Succinct opinions from New Zealanders. Judging by the advertising that's already arrived it's not too early to start discussing Christmas, and here's Tommy Wilson from Tauranga's Te Tuinga Whanau… Audio

Residents at a Queenstown campsite are facing homelessness as they're kicked out to make way for a billion dollar development.

The Queenstown Council owned cabins at the former Lakeview Camp Ground… Video, Audio

Short, succinct opinions from New Zealanders on subjects of their choice. Tommy Wilson from the Te Tuinga Whanau Suport Services Trust on the issue of babies being uplifted from their mothers and why… Audio

'The Intersection' camps out on a street corner in Silicon Valley, close to Google's HQ, to meet the tech workers living in camper vans. We play some of 'Homeless in Googleville' from Season 2 of 'The… Audio

Local leaders in Hawkes Bay say solutions to the region's acute housing problems can be found but they must be region specific and they need help from central government. Some 440 children and their… Audio

Tommy Kapai-Wilson has been doing some thinking about the by-law banning begging in Tauranga where he lives. Audio

Four of seven government housing units - which haven't been occupied in almost a year - will be handed over to Kaikōura District Council to use for emergency housing. Logan Church reports. Video, Audio

University lecturer Gregory Smith details his sad childhood and his incredible tale of living in the bush in the book Out of the Forest. He talks to Jim Mora about how he dramatically turned his life… Audio