Heart, Hope and Homes

development will be set aside for affordable housing, and those in the Resilient Homes Project will be given priority access to purchase the land and housing.

This means people can move away from the floodplain and stay in their community.

This is the first housing announcement, with more to come across the Northern Rivers.

I encourage you to read more on the website where you can also lodge an expression of interest. www.nsw.gov. au/departmentsand-agencies/ nsw-reconstructionauthority/our-work/ northern-rivers/ resilient-lands-program

It was also timely to see the NSW Auditor General’s report on the 2022 disaster, which had the recurring message that there was no plan in place to respond to the temporary housing, and as we know, no plan for such a disaster.

I have said that there was no public policy framework and hence no plan and no actions. Hence the demise of the Resilience NSW, which was charged with being prepared for such disasters.

The Auditor General’s report showed clearly that there was a lack of coordination and no plan for providing temporary housing in the face of a massive natural disaster.