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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Tamsin Rose

Lismore residents can take their homes with them under $800m buyback program

Community advocate Harper Dalton has been campaigning for homes in NSW’s Northern Rivers region to be relocated.
Community advocate Harper Dalton has been campaigning for homes in NSW’s northern rivers region to be relocated. Photograph: David Maurice Smith/The Guardian

In the nine months since floods gutted Harper Dalton’s South Lismore home, he has been waiting for two things: a land buyback and the ability to pick up the redwood home and move it to higher ground.

On Friday it emerged that northern rivers residents eligible for buybacks under a new joint federal and state $800m housing scheme will be allowed to do just that.

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