{"id":4490,"date":"2023-05-16T05:11:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T17:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4490"},"modified":"2023-05-16T05:11:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T17:11:31","slug":"hundreds-with-flood-damaged-properties-await-answers-on-temporary-accommodation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=4490","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds with flood-damaged properties await answers on temporary accommodation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 300 households whose properties were wrecked by flooding earlier this year are still waiting for a temporary home &#8211; or are in limbo about whether they will need one.<\/p>\n<p>The hold-up is partly because the Temporary Accommodation Service (TAS) is waiting for the government to decide which land is safe to use.<\/p>\n<p>TAS accommodation response Steve Watson said motorhomes and portacabins would be the main solution for those who registered for help following Cyclone Gabrielle and the Auckland Anniversary weekend floods.<\/p>\n<p>There are 316 households either waiting for a temporary home, or waiting to find out if the situation with their house will mean they need one.<\/p>\n<p>Some of them may cancel their requests or eventually be able to move back home and not need the help &#8211; but Watson could not say when the rest would be out of limbo.<\/p>\n<p>There were plenty of motorhomes and portacabins to go around, but they needed to know which land was safe for them, Watson said.<\/p>\n<p>That partly hinged on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/489142\/there-s-no-timeline-communities-in-limbo-awaiting-categorisation-of-cyclone-damage\">long-awaited government announcement<\/a>\u00a0on which category flood-damaged properties fell into, dictating whether or not the land could be rebuilt on &#8211; and have temporary accommodation put there in the meantime.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They will need land to be placed on,&#8221; Watson said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have a number of motorhomes ready to be deployed, once we have the due diligence completed on the land.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The government is starting consultation with owners of the worst affected properties in early June.<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 300 households whose properties were wrecked by flooding earlier this year are still waiting for a temporary home &#8211; or are in limbo about whether they will need one. The hold-up is partly because the Temporary Accommodation Service (TAS) is waiting for the government to decide which land is safe to use. TAS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4492,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions\/4492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}