Shortage of building materials prompts warnings of another leaky home crisis | WATCH

One of the biggest victims of the leaky building crisis is Central Auckland’s Victopia apartment block.

The issue has cost Government, councils and homeowners hundreds of millions of dollars.

‘It’s happening unfortunately, naturally builders will be under pressure with some projects to get that done, unfortunately people will cut corners if they have to and that’s precisely what we don’t want to happen,” says Julien Leys of the Building Industry Federation.

That pressure caused by a scarcity of nearly every material and now continued problems at the port are compounding the issue.