A regional Victorian Council is running a two year trial in a bid to combat cost-of-living and employment pressures.
Surf Coast Shire Council is proposing to allow people to live in tiny homes on wheels.abc.net.au/news/tiny-house-wheels-surf-coast-housing-affordability/101797194What do cars, scooters and office chairs have in common? They are on wheels, and so are the tiny homes the Surf Coast Council in Victoria want to trial to combat the housing shortage.
"We've been very active in the affordable accommodation space and we developed an action plan about a year ago," councillor Libby Stapleton said. "This year we've been working very hard on instigating some of those actions in that plan and one of those was a tiny house trial."At the moment tiny houses on wheels do not feature in the Surf Coast's planning scheme or camping provision because, by definition, they are not a caravan.
But the trial will provide a better understanding of how tiny houses on wheels might help resolve affordable housing and key worker shortages across the Shire. "There's a raft of employment in the Surf Coast where people just can't find accommodation, from hospitality workers to school teachers," Cr Stapleton said.
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