New Zealand minister says the country's housing crisis is affecting Maori the most. Image via RNZ.
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New Zealand Maori resort to living in huts

New Zealand's Maori affairs minister Nanaia Mahuta revealed in a meeting that the country's rapidly worsening housing crisis has forced some families, especially the Maori, to resort to living in wooden huts. Recent years have seen an increasing number of people leave the capital city of Auckland due to sky-high housing prices and settle outside of cities.

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Fri Nov 29 - TheGuardian

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