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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Catie McLeod

Why some people are refusing to leave ‘unliveable’ flood-damaged Lismore homes

Lachlan Gleeson standing outside a vacant house he and his friends are squatting in.
‘I don’t think this many houses should be sitting here, going to waste, rotting away, when there’s so many people struggling with housing,’ says Lachlan Gleeson. Photograph: Tajette O’Halloran/The Guardian

It’s been more than two years since Lachlan Gleeson grabbed his cat and climbed onto the roof of his house in south Lismore to be rescued after his home was engulfed by the area’s worst flood in recorded history.

He’s now part of a community that has sprung up on Lake and Pine Street in the regional city in northern New South Wales, long after the flood water has receded.

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