Tiny homes and other creative solutions needed to solve Peel’s affordable housing crisis

The digital world of Instagram is populated with tiny homes. 

The #tinyhouse hashtag, carrying images of micro-sized accommodations, has over 1.5 million posts on the image-sharing platform. Add slight variations on the phrase — say, #tinyhome — and images of miniature living spaces featured on the platform total well over 2 million. 

The evolving trend has swept across the Internet in recent years, propelled mostly by young millennials who are set on living differently, and more sustainably, than their parents. Or at least, who are consuming content that helps them imagine such a lifestyle. 

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An innovative idea for a tiny-house village from SHIP, one of Peel Region’s providers of housing for people in precarious living conditions, is one example of the imaginative thinking that could help solve a problem facing thousands of lower-income households.

But Peel’s ambitious goal of seeing 75,000 new affordable housing units built over the next 10 years won’t be achieved without support from upper governments and cooperation from the private sector.

Published on July 26, 2019 in The Pointer - Brampton