The report, Home Truths: What Recent Data on New Zealand’s Housing is Telling Us, shows New Zealand’s housing stock grew by 9.1 percent between 2021 and 2026, compared with population growth of 5.5 percent. Yet housing poverty, overcrowding and unmet social housing demand continue to persist. “Every party needs to explain what regional housing policy actually looks like in practice. “Secure, affordable and healthy housing is fundamental to wellbeing,” says Salvation Army Social Policy and Parliamentary Unit Director Dr Bonnie Robinson. Home Truths: What Recent Data on New Zealand’s Housing is Telling Us is available at: www.salvationarmy.org.nz/HomeTruthsContent Sourced from scoop.co.nzOriginal url