{"id":5211,"date":"2023-06-02T20:09:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T08:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5211"},"modified":"2023-06-02T20:09:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T08:09:09","slug":"communities-respond-to-governments-buyout-plans-for-storm-hit-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5211","title":{"rendered":"Communities respond to government’s buyout plans for storm-hit homes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cyclone Recovery Minister Grant Robertson and Associate Finance Minister Michael Wood on Thursday announced that the government was entering a co-funding arrangement with councils to\u00a0buy out properties deemed high-risk<\/a>, and to help pay for repairs on properties with a manageable risk.<\/p>\n

Councils have now begun to put storm-hit homes in\u00a0one of three categories<\/a>: one – still safe to live in; two – can be lived in, provided flood mitigation work was done; or three – too dangerous to live in.<\/p>\n

Of the roughly 700 homes that will not be rebuilt, around 400 are in Auckland.<\/p>\n

Lyall Carter, chair of advocacy group West Auckland is Flooding, told\u00a0Morning Report\u00a0<\/i>while there was no detail yet on what homeowners would be offered, the announcement was “historic” and broadly what the community had been asking for with managed retreat.<\/p>\n

“It’s a hope-filled announcement for us.”<\/p>\n

The general feeling of the community was one of “quiet optimism”, he said, though he noted West Aucklanders had been raising issues about infrastructure – such as clogged streams – with the council for years, so there were some concerns about how the buyouts would be managed locally.<\/p>\n

“There’s a real mistrust that council can get this right.”<\/p>\n

Carter said a conversation would need to happen to explain to affected residents exactly how the rollout would be handled. That would be particularly important for those who were told they could remain, but whose properties required a level of risk management, he said.<\/p>\n

Thought would also need to be given to how neighbourhoods that faced losing large numbers of houses under the plan could be kept safe from the likes of looters, he said.<\/p>\n

“How do we maintain the integrity and the safety of those communities?”<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, Carter said the plan did call for celebration.<\/p>\n

“It’s really momentous, not just for West Aucklanders but also for the country in the way in which we live with nature, not against it.”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Via RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cyclone Recovery Minister Grant Robertson and Associate Finance Minister Michael Wood on Thursday announced that the government was entering a co-funding arrangement with councils to\u00a0buy out properties deemed high-risk, and to help pay for repairs on properties with a manageable risk. Councils have now begun to put storm-hit homes in\u00a0one of three categories: one – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyclone-yasa","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5211","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=5211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5213,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5211\/revisions\/5213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}