{"id":7799,"date":"2023-09-13T05:22:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T17:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7799"},"modified":"2023-09-13T05:22:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T17:22:37","slug":"submissions-now-open-on-aucklands-2-billion-flood-recovery-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=7799","title":{"rendered":"Submissions now open on Auckland&#8217;s $2 billion flood recovery package"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flood-affected Aucklanders are being urged to speak up about the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/496517\/flood-cyclone-recovery-work-auckland-council-backs-2b-funding-deal-with-govt\">$2 billion flood recovery funding agreement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy mayor Desley Simpson said the consultation was an important next step in Auckland&#8217;s recovery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The proposed package goes beyond just buying out high-risk homes and supports a longer-term pathway for our region&#8217;s resilience,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the evidence tells us that we will experience more frequent and extreme storms in the future, so it&#8217;s vital we increase our resilience now so we&#8217;re not leaving our communities exposed to the ongoing risk of these extreme weather events.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-half photo-right four_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rnz-ressh.cloudinary.com\/image\/upload\/s--S8SIhOrt--\/c_scale,f_auto,q_auto,w_576\/v1661378546\/4LMI5FZ_Alternative_LDR_logo_PNG\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"126\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Aucklanders have until 24 September to have their say on the agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Auckland Council and the government will share costs of the T\u0101maki Makaurau Recovery plan that included a $774 million buyout package for 700 uninhabitable properties.<\/p>\n<p>M\u0101ngere-\u014ct\u0101huhu Local Board chairperson Tauanu&#8217;u Nanai Nick Bakulich urged his community to make their voices heard.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-half photo-right four_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rnz-ressh.cloudinary.com\/image\/upload\/s--8pgWvpNV--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_576\/v1694502709\/4L2S6OD_Tauanuu_nanai_Nick_Bakulich_1_jpg\" alt=\"M\u0101ngere-\u014ct\u0101huhu Local Board chair Tauanu'u Nanai Nick Bakulich\" width=\"576\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">M\u0101ngere-\u014ct\u0101huhu Local Board chair Tauanu&#8217;u Nanai Nick Bakulich urged his community to make their voices heard.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0Local Democracy Reporting \/ supplied<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had significant flood damage and we keep hearing K\u0101inga Ora have been taken care of, but we also have homeowners who have been badly affected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was frustrated with rhetoric that stereotyped M\u0101ngere as a predominantly social housing area, reminding officials that homeowners in his community needed support too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve resigned myself to being the squeaky wheel, I used to think I didn&#8217;t want to rock the boat but when I hear where resources are being prioritised, I&#8217;ve been forced to speak out,&#8221; said the board chair.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flood-affected Aucklanders are being urged to speak up about the\u00a0$2 billion flood recovery funding agreement. Deputy mayor Desley Simpson said the consultation was an important next step in Auckland&#8217;s recovery. &#8220;The proposed package goes beyond just buying out high-risk homes and supports a longer-term pathway for our region&#8217;s resilience,&#8221; she said. &#8220;All the evidence tells [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7799","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\/7799","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=7799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7801,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799\/revisions\/7801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}