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Selwyn residents fighting for homes after being told they need to leave them by 2039 (www.rnz.co.nz)

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Residents of a small Selwyn community say they will keep fighting to save their homes after being told they must vacate them by 2039.

The district council last month voted to confirm the eviction of the entire Upper Selwyn Huts settlement on the shores of Lake Ellesmere because of the impact of climate change.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah I think there's probably a bit of some folks not really understanding what they were buying into as well. Like you can't really talk about something being your forever home when its a place that's not really for permanent habitation, where you don't have a land title at all and all you have is a license to occupy a structure on an otherwise communal piece of land.