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• Landlord forced to pay $9900 to tenants over unlivable conditions

  Two Auckland tenants are to receive $9900 after they took their landlord to court over uninhabitable living conditions.Ting Xiao and Zheng Zhao had recently immigrated to New Zealand from China.Stella Ren, a property manager,...

• Councils told to loosen up restrictions to promote urban housing developments

  Councils have been told to loosen the regulations around housing developments under new rules released by Urban Development Minister Phil Twyford and Environment Minister David Parker.The National Policy Statement on Urban Development...