A year on from the Auckland Anniversary floods, some families are still living in soggy, mouldy state houses, with holes in the floor of bedrooms. In Mangere, the stream overflowed, swamped houses along its banks, where water quickly went from ankle deep to waist deep. While Auckland Council says most of those properties have been repaired, some families are living in still-mouldy Kainga Ora homes, which are making them sick. Our reporter Lucy Xia and camera operator Marika Khabazi have the story.
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