“ YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING, BERTIE...Are you really asking government to require the semi-poverty people of Tonga to build expensive homes only? Isn't it the price of living in Paradise?
Even Australian and New Zealand homes have been devastated by natural disasters. We had to rebuild and replaced our old house roof from Cyclone Gita. But to rebuild with the type of government standards you're proposing are nuts. First priority is to get a roof over your head. Then slowly improve the home to be weather proof.
Don't ask government to come interfering in our business at home. They're the last ones to help, but life requires food, shelter, education, etc., in that order. ”