The owners of newly-built houses along the Bruce Highway are devastated to learn the Department of Transport may resume their properties for future road upgrades.

The state government has this week notified the owners of two dozen residential lots in a new development in Griffin their homes could be resumed.

Charmaine Jackson told Bill McDonald neither the state government or Moreton Bay Regional Council are taking responsibility for allowing the development to go ahead in the first place.

“Everybody we’ve spoken to either washes their hands of it or points the finger at other people,” she said. “Everyone involved in the titling, registration of our land has some responsibility there.”

Ms Jackson said she’s scared to think about what compensation the state government will offer, and whether she and her husband could even afford to rebuild in a similar area.

“I can’t sleep because I’m up late thinking about it and when I do sleep, as soon as I wake up, it’s just the first thing on my mind. This could all be taken away from us and who knows when.

“Where are we going to go? There’s a housing crisis as is. We were very lucky to get the land that we did.”

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