Tinyer homes – bigger possibilities

Yeah, that day was really positive, Mick.

There were more people there than I expected and just a really good vibe.

that people were part of something, part of the solution, I guess, part of something special.

One woman told me that was like a moment in paradise.

Well, that was a big compliment to Robert Pattinson and the owner of that little tiny house there.

It was a touching moment also when Libby Coker had a good yawn, you could say, with the person who was going to live in the tiny house.

Well, clearly, from what we've heard, tiny houses are a far, far better option than even caravans and units that are built on caravan sites, because they're much, much more appreciated by the people who live in them.

And so it makes me wonder why we just don't have a tiny house building program.

that's done, you know, why the building companies themselves don't buy up house blocks, empty house blocks, and put four or five tiny houses on it.

Clearly there's a demand for it, but at the moment it's only sort of enthusiasts that are doing it in space that they can find.

It's, if you like, a niche market and it should be much more mainstream, shouldn't it?

Yeah, it all boils down to money as usual.

And the people who are going to live in these tiny houses don't have much money.

That's the problem to begin with.

But there are different economic models how you can set up.

For instance, if you have three tiny houses on one lot.

then there are other ways of of constructing you could say like creating an association that runs that place so the people who live there actually just pay a tiny rent for their tiny house and that construction is i think what needs to be explored and developed much more I think in Denmark, we are quite a bit further with that.

You see lots of different models where people share housing.

Here in Australia, everything is set for that.

It's one family, one house, and that's it.

Yeah.

You would think that at the moment we have a housing crisis.

We have a huge demand for low-cost housing and it seems our authorities are unable to even find a way of meeting it.

You would think that the tiny house movement, especially with, as you pointed out, Libby Coker was there.

She's a Member of Parliament.