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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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| Anonymous | Regulation for Zero Emission New Buildings | 1 | Mar 11 2008, 5:51 PM EDT by Anonymous | |
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The federal government should initiate national 'new building' regulations in agreement with state governments (and specific to each states' climate requirements) to ensure all new buildings have a 5 star emissions rating. All new homes should have water tanks, 'as required' water heaters and appropriate insulation for each climate situation. incentives like the solar panel rebate should be continued and expanded.
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| Anonymous | We don't need to cut down trees and take animals homes to live | 1 | Mar 11 2008, 8:27 AM EDT by dra_red | |
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Considering the state of the environment, we need to encourage people who dont take up much land to live. People who live in house boats and motor homes have saved many pieces of land becuae of this. Considering the lond term future UV rays, logging to build houses etc. Bottem line is that we need to aim underground. Australia has enough capacity to add a new city. This could be an opportunity to trial the feesibility of it and also to be innovative in designing an environmentally friendly city. Our current cities are based on peoples ideas when land was plentiful, trees were abundant and could not even pronounce the word, "endangered species". We have underground train systems - Why not think about putting everything below? Let the land recuperate, the trees grow and animals reproduce without fear of us? We have so many intelligent human beings - yet so many nay sayers that stop things like this reaching its full potential.
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