Auckland remains in a local state of emergency as rapid building assessments are undertaken across the city.
Another 283 properties were inspected on Wednesday, with five yellow stickered. But concerns are growing over the assessment process and the uncertainty it causes for flood-affected residents.
West Auckland resident Lyall Carter is feeling devastated after Tuesday's horrendous weather.
"There's not much to clean up, the only thing to clean up is the tears and the heartache."
Some homes succumbed to flood waters for the fourth time in as many months during the heavy rain.
Another west Auckland resident, Mark Griffin, said it's been "very hard" on his children.
"They're all quite upset about it. I had my middle daughter ring yesterday during the rain, in tears, saying, 'Is the house okay? What's happening?'"
Griffin has been wondering the same thing since his home was deemed uninhabitable in January.
"My wife and one of my daughters is living in a caravan. One daughter is living with a friend, and my son is living with the grandparents, and I'm living in a bed in the house," he said.
He's waiting for a decision from central and local government about whether the land can be built on again.
"I think the entire side of my street needs to be red-stickered because it's not a matter of if it happens again, but when it happens again."
It's for that reason that Carter, who is the chair of the West Auckland is Flooding group, said there needs to be a review of the rapid assessment team.
"Stories of homes which had a metre high flood waters inside, and they were yellow-stickered, or some were even white-stickered."
Auckland Council said it's possible some homes could be reclassified upon further assessment.
"It's not a detailed assessment of the building; it's a rapid assessment," said building consents manager Ian McCormack.
"So it's quite possible that after another expert's looked at it, they might say, 'Well, look, the concerns that the inspector had when they inspected it as part of a rapid building assessment actually aren't borne out'."
But Griffin is adamant about the outcome he wants.
"Managed retreat, buy us out. We don't want to be here. Red sticker, yellow sticker, white sticker - no one really wants to be here."
