We need to talk about housing – minus the lectures

When Natalie Robinson shared her journey to home ownership on The Spinoff earlier this year the responses included snark, unsolicited advice and shame. Now she says we need to keep talking about New Zealand’s housing crisis, but without the antagonism.  Earlier this year, I noticed an article on The Spinoff, calling for people who were … Read more

Two incomes. Moved out of the city. 20% deposit. Why won’t any bank lend to us?

Rent week: a reader shares the story of her struggles to buy a house. She’s done everything you’re supposed to do as an aspirant home-owner – yet the banks won’t lend to her. Here she shares her story. I’m one of what I presume are many embittered twenty-somethings who feel like Stuff and NZHerald are … Read more