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

If residents choose not to move their home or if it is not possible, they will be sold or stripped for materials

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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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