POCKET HOUSING
A PROJECT AIMING TO SOLVE THE HOUSING PROBLEM OF AUSTRALIA
Dear Prime Minister,
I am writing to you in the hope that my project will be taken seriously and it will be given a green light. I am an elderly Australian willing to do good in the world.
For many years I witness the fruitless struggle of many Australians to have a home. Among them there is an army of young people who are unable to leave the home of their parents for the prices of housing are impossible for them and also for lack of small living affordable places like studios and apartments. There is a huge number of divorced people, who are trapped in a sudden family disaster and need urgent small accommodations. And there are many, many pensioners who no longer need a 3-4 bedroom houses, which they cannot maintain any longer, but need a small place to live.
It is true that the need of housing for low income people has risen dramatically in the past years and the government is unable to meet their needs. The government offers a large number of houses and living places for rent to the needy, but that is far from enough to solve the housing problem and many people today sleep in their cars or in unsuitable conditions. The rate of building living places goes much slower than the need for accommodations. And there is an obligation to the government to maintain the rented housing places, which is a huge burden to the budget.
I believe that this is not the way to go. There is no need the government to provide huge housing estates at all. All that is needed is high rising buildings with studios and small apartments, build with cheap modern materials. And that can be achieved for a price of about $50,000. The young people, the pensioners, the divorced will be happy to grab such an opportunity. The people renting government houses can be offered to buy them for an affordable price. So the government will not need to provide and to maintain houses at all. Let the users of the government houses take the responsibility to own and maintain their living places. The long term homeless people can be accommodated with shed-like one bedroom places in villages, costing each about $2000 or in cheap made shelters, as well as in very cheap eco villages and farming places.
The housing problem can be easily completely solved, so no person in Australia suffers lack of living place, of course if the government is willing to.
Regards
Marcia Malinova-Anthony
This project was sent to The Hon. Tony Abbott MP, but rejected with the answer that the government is doing far than enough. And at the same time so many Australians are struggling for accommodations. That was the fate of the projects “No to Homelessness” and “Build Your Own Eco-Shelter”.