A $350 million promise to house displaced people in northern New South Wales is largely unfilled four months after the devastating floods hit the region.
As part of a package for the Northern Rivers announced in April, up to 2,000 pod-style homes were promised.
There is only one site open at Wollongbar, between Lismore and Ballina.
It currently houses about 50 people in 34 pods.
The roll out of emergency accommodation across the region had been pathetic, and Lismore MP Janelle Saffin blamed Resilience New South Wales for the delays.
Ms Saffin said they had no faith in their capacity to deliver anything and they need to get out of the road.
Ms Saffin said there were immediate solutions available if the government was willing to act quickly.
She said that they've got some motorhomes in Lismore, in the caravan park, and they're trialling putting vans on people's places.
People want them in their places.
A lot of people have gone out and done their own thing, begging to get a van here and there.
I've been very patient, I've worked in an absolute bipartisan way on this, but my patience is thin on behalf of our people.
More than 6,200 homes were damaged in the record-breaking floods that hit the region on February 28, with close to half of them in the Lismore local government area.
In May of this year, the state government released a list of nine pod village sites across Tweed, Ballina, Richmond Valley and Lismore LGAs, with two more identified in Byron Shire.
Some of the sites are classified as crown land, but most require a lease arrangement with the local council.
The Lismore City Council's general manager John Walker said the delay was due to a lack of suitable land.
I think it is explanationable but not satisfactory when you understand the question of how to find the land to make it happen. Mr Walker said the council had been asked to approve a pod village at a junior sports field at Hepburn Park, which is out of the flood zone in Goonellabah.
He said up to 40 housing pods would be ready for delivery within a few weeks on the grounds of Southern Cross University.
Tweed Mayor Chris Cherry said close to 70 temporary dwellings would be ready to be built on two sites on the Tweed coast within a month.
Ms Cherry said she was concerned about the time it took.
It is supposed to be a very short-term solution, but it is not a fantastic solution, she said.
The NSW Minister for Flood Recovery, Steph Cooke, made a statement to the ABC.
She said additional temporary housing was being worked on at Pottsville, Evans Head, and Southern Cross University.
There are 1,261 people in emergency accommodation in northern NSW, as of June 29, 2022, according to Cooke, no-one who requested emergency accommodation has been declined.
As overnight temperatures in the region drop into single figures, there has been a surge in demand for warm clothes and bedding for flood victims.
Joel Orchard, from Wardell Core, said people living in makeshift accommodation were feeling the winter chill.
He said that a lot of people are still living in rooms without regular insulation.
I think winter wear has been a priority as well as winter bedding.