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"This year’s floods in South-East Queensland and Northern New South Wales
devastated communities. The NSW flooding was on “a scale never seen before”.
More than 5,000 homes were left uninhabitable. Many residents had nowhere else
to go.
The NSW government promised to provide temporary housing in the form of 2,000
modular homes. But delivery has been held up by the need for planning approval
amid community divisions over some sites.
Flood victims’ continuing struggle to find suitable housing long after the
February-March flooding subsided has exposed a critical gap in our plans for
recovery from natural disasters. The planning system should be reformed to
include temporary housing that provides effective options in the short term
(weeks) through to the long term (years). Australia needs to develop a
permanent reserve of temporary housing.
In developing this resource, governments must work with communities to avoid
the conflicts over temporary housing sites we’re now seeing."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
