Can tiny and alternate houses help ease Australia’s rental affordability crisis?
2 years, 7 months ago

Can tiny and alternate houses help ease Australia’s rental affordability crisis?

ABC  

Rental housing in Australia is less affordable than ever before. These include relaxing planning restrictions on small and non-traditional houses, allowing granny flats to be rented to anyone, permitting property owners to let space to tiny house dwellers, and possibly even subsidising the building of granny flats or modification of houses for dual occupancy. Benefits from easing restrictions Removing some restrictions on letting granny flats and permitting and regulating longer-term occupancy for tiny house dwellers can help ease these rental affordability challenges. Allowing tiny houses for a trial period of, say, two years could provide a valuable pilot project, and perhaps alleviate the concerns of some local ratepayers. In nine years of research into the tiny house movement in Australia, we have found some councils are willing to consider permitting tiny houses – but only if another council does it first.

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Tiny homes, built largely with philanthropic support, offer more patch than solution to homelessness
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Tiny homes, built largely with philanthropic support, offer more patch than solution to homelessness

Associated Press  

In response to a nationwide crisis that has left more than 650,000 people without housing, 100 tiny home villages for the homeless have opened in the United States over the past five years. At best, tiny homes are a short-term solution to the country’s long-term issue of insufficient housing and social services for low-income Americans, said Margot Kushel, director of …

Tiny homes to help ease a national housing crisis in councils' spotlight with development consent relaxed
8 months ago

Tiny homes to help ease a national housing crisis in councils' spotlight with development consent relaxed

ABC  

In short: A NSW council will trial a tiny house pilot that approves their use as long-term rentals without a development application. Coby Koster said removing red tape would make tiny homes accessible to more people. Cr Homer said the tiny homes pilot was part of the council's attempt to tackle a "diabolical" housing crisis. The Australian Tiny Homes Association's …

How the tiny-home movement is providing more than just a roof to homeless people
2 years, 10 months ago

How the tiny-home movement is providing more than just a roof to homeless people

Salon  

MADISON, Wis. — Tucked inside a residential neighborhood, and surrounded by a wooden fence and greenery, are nine little houses. "This is the longest time I've stayed in one place," said Cox, nursing coffee and a cigarette outside his tiny home after working second shift as a benefits administrator. Some are just "agency-managed shelters that use pods instead of the …

Tiny homes combating youth homelessness
3 years, 4 months ago

Tiny homes combating youth homelessness

ABC  

More than 27,000 Australian young people experience homelessness each year, sleeping rough without a safe or secure place to call home. Key points: The Kids Under Cover project provides early intervention to prevent young people from becoming homeless by installing studio apartments in the backyards of family homes New Victorian government funding will provide $6.5 million for 95 new portable …

Tiny homes, house sharing, help with small builds — women's ideas to help alleviate housing crisis
3 years, 6 months ago

Tiny homes, house sharing, help with small builds — women's ideas to help alleviate housing crisis

ABC  

Kathleen McCann has lived in 67 rentals during her lifetime, but now she's found a place to call her own. Key points: Share housing on larger properties in return for help with maintenance is one idea put forward to help women at risk of homelessness Another strategy is creating a register of materials to help people with small builds The …

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