Buyback homes and temporary home pods will be part of a housing reuse initiative by NSW Reconstruction Authority and Homes NSW.

The homes will be offered for affordable, social, transitional, crisis or key worker housing, or as community spaces.

Minister for Recovery and State MP Janelle Saffin said repurposing existing safe and suitable buyback homes can help address the significant housing pressure felt across flood impacted communities.

“By investing up to $135,000 per home to relocate these buildings rather than demolish them, we are turning a potential waste into a massive win for local families,” Ms Saffin said.

The Homes Reuse Program will offer the homes and pods through an Expression of Interest process to eligible organisations which may include community housing providers, Local Aboriginal Lands Councils and Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations, local government, not-for-profit community organisations and NSW Government agencies.

Priority for the relocatable homes will be given to organisations representing flood impacted Aboriginal communities, and those wishing to retain the homes within the region for community, key worker accommodation and social housing use. 

By putting homes back into local communities, the program aims to help ease the chronic shortage of housing in the region, estimated at more than 24,000 dwellings.

The NSW Reconstruction Authority will provide funding of up to $135,000 per buyback home to support removal and relocation costs. 

Pods are not eligible for relocation funding.

Expressions of Interest for the Homes Reuse Program will open on July 9 and close on September 17. For more information on the Homes Reuse Program go here. 

This information was provided by the office of Janelle Saffin MP.

This article appeared on indyNR.com on 15 June 2026.