Many of the hardest hit streets were those with Kāinga Ora homes, he said. Buller emergency operations centre controller Bob Dickson said building assessors were going through homes from Sunday afternoon to determine which were still habitable. People were resilient, but support would be needed long-term. “We re looking at many, many months [of work] this is a big, large-scale event.” Faafoi said the Government would provide $300,000 to the Buller District Council s mayoral fund and $100,000 to Marlborough s fund – another region affected by flooding, road closures and evacuations over the weekend. Westport s housing issues would be “one of the challenges we ll work through” once the floodwaters had receded and the damage could be better assessed.
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