{"id":11637,"date":"2019-11-29T10:34:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T01:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/29\/families-living-in-tree-huts-as-new-zealand-housing-crisis-bites"},"modified":"2019-11-29T10:34:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T01:34:24","slug":"families-living-in-tree-huts-as-new-zealand-housing-crisis-bites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11637","title":{"rendered":"Families living in tree huts as New Zealand housing crisis bites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 30% rise in people waiting for state housing in Northland region fuels country\u2019s \u2018desperate\u2019 shortage in affordable homes<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand government MPs have heard that the housing situation in Northland has become so desperate some families are living in the woods, in huts built in the forks of trees.<\/p>\n<p>Northland is one of the most deprived regions of the country, with a median income of NZ$23,400. The population is also 32% M\u0101ori \u2013 double that of the rest of the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/nov\/29\/families-living-in-tree-huts-as-new-zealand-housing-crisis-bites\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 30% rise in people waiting for state housing in Northland region fuels country\u2019s \u2018desperate\u2019 shortage in affordable homesNew Zealand government MPs have heard that the housing situation in Northland has become so desperate some families are living in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,697,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-housing","category-new-zealand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11638,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11637\/revisions\/11638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}