A girl who fled an abusive marriage and moved right into a tiny house on her good friend’s property may very well be homeless due to a council’s ‘ridiculous’ demand.
Teena Keys moved again to Geelong, in Victoria, after leaving a violent marriage and shedding her housekeeping enterprise when the pandemic hit.
After sofa browsing for 3 years and being rejected from 60 rental properties, she finally determined to construct a tiny house on her good friend’s 100-acre property.
Ms Keys constructed what she described as ‘a relocatable web site hut’ on the land for slightly below $20,000.
However the Metropolis of Better Geelong Council usually are not pleased with the association that the 2 buddies got here to late final 12 months.
Teena Keys moved again to Geelong after leaving a violent marriage and shedding her housekeeping enterprise, when the pandemic hit.
Ms Keys constructed what she described as ‘a relocatable web site hut’ on her good friend’s land for slightly below $20,000 on the finish of final 12 months
Ms Keys obtained discover that she can be required to use for a allow to stay on the property and has been given 60 days to conform.
She stated the price of the applying, which may very well be knocked again, would successfully ship her broke by the point she hires a city planner and submits the paperwork.
‘Then after I do put the applying in, it may well nonetheless be knocked again, regardless that I am going to must pay $2,000. And that is all earlier than they even come to the cabin,’ she informed Yahoo.
‘I’ve acquired to get a constructing surveyor for that, so the constructing surveyor alone will probably be round $3,000.’
Ms Keys known as council’s demand ‘ridiculous’ and ‘unfair’ given she was invited to reside on the privately-owned property by her good friend.
She acquired a mortgage to buy the house and repair it up, pondering she lastly had some stability and a roof over her head.
‘Throughout Covid, I used to be sofa browsing for round three years, I did not have stability. Shedding the enterprise, it simply put me on the again,’ she stated.
‘You already know, you do not anticipate to be right here at this age. You do not anticipate to be the place I am at.’
Ms Keys stated it is unhappy to see so many individuals doing it robust due to a dire lack of housing in Geelong and is urging the council to take a typical sense method
Fearing she is going to grow to be homeless once more, Ms Keys stated the ordeal has been troublesome to return to phrases with.
She stated it is unhappy to see so many individuals doing it robust due to a dire lack of housing in Geelong and is urging the council to take a typical sense method.
Ms Keys is calling on native authorities to not make issues tougher for people who find themselves discovering their very own options within the midst of a cost-of-living disaster.
‘Would not it’s fabulous to get folks off the streets and out of their automobiles and into small houses on properties which can be in any other case typically solely inhabited by “lonely farmers”,’ she stated.
A GoFundMe has been set as much as assist Ms Keys.
Each day Mail Australia has contacted Geelong Council for remark.
