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    Tiny homes launch

    A tiny home village has been opened in Melbourne’s west for those who have experienced homelessness and need a permanent residence, realestate.com.au reports.

    The Harris Transportable Housing Project is one of several tiny home villages around the country. These villages aim to provide immediate housing to those who are experiencing homelessness.

    This project first began two years ago with the aim of creating tiny houses that would sit on unused government land for tenants to live in on a long-term basis.

    Residents began moving into the $9 million project’s first village of six tiny homes in Maidstone earlier this year.

    Community agency Launch Housing has teamed up philanthropists Brad and Geoff Harris as well as the Victorian Property Fund for this project, which creates permanent spaces for those without a home.

    “Homelessness is getting worse, not better and we urgently need solutions. Whilst tiny homes aren’t suitable for everybody, some people including the people that we’ve talked to, who are living at and making these places their homes right now, have told us this can be life changing,” says Launch Housing chief executive officer Bevan Warner.

    The project will establish nine tiny home villages with a total of 57 homes on empty Vic Roads land.

    Warner describes the response from the neighbours to the first tiny home village in Melbourne’s west as “overwhelmingly positive”.

    “We’ve improved the streetscape. So what was an overgrown, poorly attended suburban block is now quite attractive to the eye. And the neighbours and local community groups have really adopted the residents and welcomed them,” he says.

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    Tiny homes for those without one of their own (realestate.com.au)

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    This tiny house village for those without a home sits on unused government land in Melbourne’s west. Picture: Launch Housing