Report finds that Australia’s largest state economy had ‘no plan’ to house survivors of flood in 2022 — Two years later, hundreds remain on waiting lists for temporary housing
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Report finds that Australia’s largest state economy had ‘no plan’ to house survivors of flood in 2022 — Two years later, hundreds remain on waiting lists for temporary housing
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The New South Wales auditor-general has delivered [a damning report](https://www.audit.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/Tabling%20report%20-%20Flood%20housing%20response.pdf) on the provision of emergency and temporary housing after major floods in 2022:
*The key findings included:*
*• The amount of temporary housing provided did not meet the demand.*
*• There is still an extensive waiting list for temporary housing and the remaining demand in the Northern Rivers is unlikely to be met.*
*• No long-term plans are in place for the transition of [people] out of temporary housing.*
*”The NSW government does not have a clear plan around how long the temporary housing villages are intended to remain in place … it has identified that the temporary housing villages need to be demobilised within a five-year period.*
*”There are also no plans in place setting out how people will be rehoused in other appropriate housing.”*