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ccaff Affordable Housing 0 Apr 22 2008, 12:31 AM EDT by ccaff
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Set up an alternative housing faculty within the university system. Strive to eliminate non renewable products in construction. Review all building codes that prohibit self built affordable housing and encourage the use of alternative materials. Straw bale is a much more suitable product than high fired clay brick for example for the Australian climate. Send participants to learn and then introduce to Australia the use of "Super Adobe" construction. See www.calearth.org/EcoDome.htm
Provide incubator parcels of land in all major cities for training and exhibiting such structures. Make training courses available to the homeless and aboriginal communities and empower them to build and own their own dwelling and maybe become self employed in this form of building.
Encourage a design competition with a holistic approach to alternative lifestyles, ie solar, reusing waste water etc, build the winning designs and so foster an affordable realistic alternative to the ugly wasteful McMansions we are building today.
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Anonymous Catering for Homeless youth in the short term 0 Apr 8 2008, 10:59 PM EDT by Anonymous
 
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Those youth thrown out of their own homes leave a bed and room there. Encourage families to take in another youth and utilise that bed and room. Utilize spare bedrooms in the "empty nests" as well. Set up a register and provide funding for a community agency to allocate homeless people to homes. Then link them with other community agencies to build better networks aiming for economic and social outcomes for these people.
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GeehiBeetle Make Mortgage payments 100% Tax-Deductible on the primary residence. 3 Apr 7 2008, 4:04 AM EDT by Anonymous
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I believe some other countries do this.
It may be necessary to cap the value of the elegible residence, and / or the age / income of the applicants.
This would make housing affordable for those who currently struggle to enter the market
It would also assist the viability of the housing construction industry, and the trades that depend on it for employment.
It might also offset the mounting environmental and regulatory costs inhibiting this sector.
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