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This week's Wire Worry Week theme is Housing Crisis. Today, producer Lisa Boudet looks into Aotearoa's "ghost homes": houses that are left inoccupied by their owners. 

While we wait for the 2018 census data to ba analysed, the previous figures of 2013 showed 185.000 houses in New Zealand had been listed as empty, with about 3/4 having effectively no one living in them at the time the data was collected. Earlier this month, the government announced a $100 million plan to fight homelessness in the country, including $37 milion in temporary motel accomodation.

Now voices, like political activist John Minto's, are rising saying another solution is taxing owners of underutilised houses.

Vancouver, Canada, has chosen this path. Every house that has not been rented for at least 4 months of a given year will be taxed 1% of its assessed value. This year, the city has collected CAN$30 million. 

So, should New Zealand follow in Vancouver's footsteps?

James Tapp spoke to the Opportunities Party's leader Geoff Simmons on their housing policies.

Following the announcement of the government's new housing plan, concerns have been raised regarded the little attention paid to accessibility issues in regard to housing for the disabled. Aneeka talks to Paula Tesoriero, the disability rights commissioner, about housing barriers faced by the disabled community and steps the government must take to remedy this. 

Artspace Aotearoa’s yearly group exhibition, This is the house that jack built, is currently on. 

Featuring artists Andy Butler, Kerry Deane, Sara Gómez, Ming Ranginui, Ashleigh Taupaki, and X&Y, the exhibition brings together a fifty-year arc of works from local and international artists to answer the annual question of ‘do I need territory?’. 

Through film, sculpture, and site specific drawings, the artists explore the complexity of dynamic geo-political conditions, asking the audience to confront its perceptions of value, class, labour and ownership in present day late capitalism.

Sofia spoke to Kaitohu Director Ruth Buchanan and one of the artists in the show, Ashleigh Taupaki, about the themes of the show and Taupaki’s work.