Kāinga Ora resident says flooding houses not only issue
Once a swamp, always a swamp - that is what one Kāinga Ora tenant says about the home she's lived in for decades, built next to a creek in Auckland.
The house is among more than 4000 in the state housing provider's Auckland portfolio that were built on flood prone land.
Oakley Creek winds through the Auckland suburb Mt Roskill, where many state houses straddle the waterway.
Kāinga Ora tenant Elizabeth Gedye has lived next to the creek for 41 years and said her back yard regularly flooded.
She did not think new housing should be built nearby, but will be.
"It is the most silliest thing that I have ever seen or heard. Where I am in the Wesley block, this has been here since the early 50s. It was swamp land then and it's swamp land now."
Link to article: 'You cannot get rid of the mould': Kāinga Ora resident says flooding houses not only issue | RNZ News
