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The Scot in charge of an Australian lighthouse
Sandy Duthie from Aberdeenshire is now the lighthouse keeper on Gabo Island, in Victoria
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‘Loki’ actor Jack Veal appeals for help as he says he’s homeless at 17
By Lisa Respers France, CNNPublished 11:35 AM EST, Wed December 4, 2024
Wow...99 and still dancing Dick Van Dyke is a force of nature
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Dick Van Dyke stars in moving Coldplay video as he turns 99
The actor recreates dance moves from across his career, and reflects on old age in a touching video.
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An American teen sent a letter to a random address across the world. It led to lifelong friendship
By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNNPublished 6:00 AM EST, Fri December 6, 2024
Leonor Drago, left, from Portugal, and Michelle Anderson, from the US, became pen pals when they were around 12 and 15 and are still friends nearly 50 years later.
Courtesy M. Leonor P. Drago
Bucking the odds....
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Queensland mother on transplant list for just six hours before life-saving call
A dying Queensland mother living with cystic fibrosis has again cheated death with a heart and double lung transplant.
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Clever pup
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Missing dog returns to Florida family, rings doorbell
After a nearly weeklong search, Athena, a four-year-old German Shepherd and Husky mix, found her way home to her Florida family in time for Christmas Eve and even rang the doorbell.
Toronto man creates tiny mobile homes to help unhoused people escape the cold
Homes are attached to bicycles; include heat, electricity and safety features
CBC News · Posted: Dec 28, 2024 5:23 PM EST | Last Updated: December 29
Ryan Donais build his first tiny mobile home this summer, and has now built three homes — one of which is pictured behind him — that can act as temporary shelters for those experiencing homelessness. (Saeed Dehghani/CBC)
Love to see Ikea do a flat pack of this. With their scale they could keep prices down.
Each home built by Donais has heat, electricity and running water, plus safety features including a smoke detector and carbon monoxide alarm. (Saeed Dehghani/CBC)
Maybe Ontario politicians should take a year long break from pay raises and buy enough of these.
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Another decent idea ruined by regulations and poor planning. Almost every similar idea is a fire trap and quickly gets formally banned. I only see one exit. Smoke alarm is mounted 18" down from ceiling. The crap about designed for ebike regs so it can travel in the bike lanes is complete hooey as this trailer is going to be heavy and a 4' wide trailer in a bike lane going <5 km/h screws everything up. Running water means you have to keep it heated at all times. They say they are heated but don't say where the energy comes from. My guess is they need to be plugged in and you'd need close to 15A for each one.Toronto man creates tiny mobile homes to help unhoused people escape the cold
Homes are attached to bicycles; include heat, electricity and safety features
CBC News · Posted: Dec 28, 2024 5:23 PM EST | Last Updated: December 29
Ryan Donais build his first tiny mobile home this summer, and has now built three homes — one of which is pictured behind him — that can act as temporary shelters for those experiencing homelessness. (Saeed Dehghani/CBC)
Love to see Ikea do a flat pack of this. With their scale they could keep prices down.
Each home built by Donais has heat, electricity and running water, plus safety features including a smoke detector and carbon monoxide alarm. (Saeed Dehghani/CBC)
Maybe Ontario politicians should take a year long break from pay raises and buy enough of these.
Good intentions, another disastrous execution.
Thanks - yeah...innovative with the wheels for moving via bicycle or ebike. If Finland can guarantee EVERYONE housing.....what the hell is wrong with Canada.
Australia still has sleeping rough but don't have hard winters....every camp/trailer park is bursting with people living full time in relatively light shelter tho it's not as bad up here in Cairns.
Renters get the short end of the stick in Aus.
And negative gearing is keeping housing stupid tight ( a policy that lets the well off get rich on the gov tax dime and keeps supply near zero. )
Some politicians own a dozen homes thanks to their self serving negative gearing deal....and we have a left wing gov just now...grrr.
That said, singles with reasonable income can still by a villa ...2 or 3 bedroom in the $300k range but getting scarce
Australia still has sleeping rough but don't have hard winters....every camp/trailer park is bursting with people living full time in relatively light shelter tho it's not as bad up here in Cairns.
Renters get the short end of the stick in Aus.
And negative gearing is keeping housing stupid tight ( a policy that lets the well off get rich on the gov tax dime and keeps supply near zero. )
Some politicians own a dozen homes thanks to their self serving negative gearing deal....and we have a left wing gov just now...grrr.
That said, singles with reasonable income can still by a villa ...2 or 3 bedroom in the $300k range but getting scarce
Better than a tent.
Peterboroughs looks much better designed and executed.
Quebec trying to emulate Finlands Housing First policy
Finland’s successful approach to ending homelessness catches eye of Quebec City | Globalnews.ca
Quebec City Mayor Bruno Marchand has suggested that the solution to the crisis may be a Finnish model, which is a 'housing first' approach that aims to give everyone a home.
globalnews.ca
Entire agree. To do it properly costs >$20k per dwelling, close to that every year in operating expenses and land on top. While the $5k solutions are laudable, I haven't seen one that isn't a deathtrap.
Government. Add in minimal insulation, resistance heating, tenants that don't pay utilities so they leave doors/windows open and heat on, repairs (higher when the tenants have nothing to lose and/or substance abuse problems), etc. Build them like jail cells with abuse board and initial cost goes way up but maintenance goes down.
Something like this could work heated by body heat for sleeping only no extra connections and under 200lbs
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People with mental and financial resources could survive in a cheaply built unit but don't have to because they have the resources for traditional housing. People without the mental resources need the nanny state model made of impact resistant, abuse tolerant materials.
The government caters to the lowest common denominator. If the government supplied easily damaged units the government would be sued for the inadequacies should anyone get hurt. Any action by any organization can be taken as accepting responsibility for any future problem.
Therefore they must forsee all potential problems.
Where do they put them and what do the ocupants use for toilets etc?Something like this could work heated by body heat for sleeping only no extra connections and under 200lbs
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NIMBY
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It would need some sort of camp with central toilets and kitchen. Maybe every homeless activist could get one in their yard .
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