The Byron Shire Council says it wants emergency housing pods at Bayside, Brunswick Heads, to stay on council-owned land.
The council says it’s working to retain nine emergency housing pods at the Bayside Temporary Housing Village in Torakina Street, Brunswick Heads.
The mayor says the council isn’t prepared to stand back and see emergency housing lost from the shire.
Councillor Sarah Ndiaye says the council is also expanding efforts to identify land for eighteen other neighbouring pods on privately-owned land.
600 homes promised for Northern Rivers
Residents in the 27 pods in Torakina Street were notified in early April that they would need to move out by 27 June.
But the mayor says without any significant increase in housing supply in the shire over the last several years, removal of the temporary homes makes absolutely no sense.
‘In fact, it’s a move that could see even more people in the Shire without a roof over their head,’ Cr Ndiaye said via media release, ‘and as far as I am concerned that is not acceptable’.
‘In the three years since the floods, no public, social or affordable housing has been delivered by the State and there is none in the pipeline, despite more than 600 social and public housing dwellings being destined for the Northern Rivers,’ Cr Ndiay said.
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