Tenants

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio

There are horror stories on both sides of the landlord/tenant divide, but how do the laws of the country ensure a fair balance between the rights of both?  Audio

Research shows that a cohort of almost half a million New Zealanders will go into retirement as renters. But what is flatting like in your golden years? Edna Nicholson, who is in her 70s and is… Audio

The government's plans to licence rental property managers has been criticised as a 'simplistic tick box exercise' by an industry association. The proposed scheme would see property managers subject… Audio

The government wants to introduce new regulations that will shift the power imbalance between property managers, tenants and landlords.

New Zealand is one of the few countries in the OECD that… Audio

The government may take a second look at Kāinga Ora's policy that's seen no tenants evicted in the past three years.

That's despite complaints of unruly behaviour and harassment of their neighbours… Audio

As of last week, private rental properties must now comply with healthy homes standards within 90 days of any new tenancy, but state houses have two years longer, and currently only a sixth of them… Audio

Otago landlords with rowdy tenants are being told to give them the boot now, before a law change makes that even harder to do.

Among the new changes to tenancy rules coming into effect next February… Audio

National has released a plan to crack down on anti-social state tenants, in a policy titled 'Remind, Remedy, Remove'  Audio

Tenants living in a South Auckland social housing complex say assaults, sexual harassment and drug dealings aren't being taken seriously, and they no longer feel safe in their homes. Lisa Owen… Video, Audio

The first state house tenants kicked out of their homes due to flawed meth testing are about to have their compensation claims paid out after Cabinet signed off on a regulation change. Video, Audio

Housing Minister Phil Twyford has said 200 Housing New Zealand tenants evicted over flawed meth tests will be compensated by Christmas, but those figures clash with figures HNZ has supplied to… Audio

The government is proposing a range of changes aimed at making it easier for tenants to rent properties - and stay in them, but landlords are hoping they'll also be considered before any changes go… Audio

Tenants group Renters United has come up with a blueprint that they think would be life changing for long term tenants. They want the right to live in a property for as long as they keep paying the… Audio

Barry Thompson, 81, says he'll find it difficult to trust another tenant after a woman turned his property into a rubbish dump. Video, Audio

The Opportunities Party wants to protect tenants when the house they live in is sold, by making it difficult for landlords to evict them. TOP leader Gareth Morgan joins us. Video, Audio

The rights and obligations of both tenants and landlords are changing, and both groups are being asked for feedback. Audio