Auckland Council and the government have agreed on a $2 billion flood rescue & resilience package including, a 50-50 shared buyout of uninhabitable homes.
Here's a bit of the breakdown:
$820 million for flood resilience projects, that includes increased maintenance, stream rehabilitation & culvert and bridge upgrades.
$390 million towards patching up the transport network directly hit by the storms; including access to the Karekare and Piha beach communities.
And $774 million to buy out about 700 residential properties, where the risk to life is too intolerable to return to them.
Auckland deputy mayor Desley Simpson spoke to Lisa Owen.
