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Housing Experts on Tiny Home Villages Policy Outcomes - Canada

Tiny home villages are currently Canada's most popular housing response. They are also a spectacular failure of social policy dressed up as compassion. I have been studying this trend through the lens of behavioural economics, disability rights law, and the hard cost data. I put together a short presentation breaking down what we are actually building when we build these compounds. The core problem is what Rory Sutherland would call "psycho-logic." When poverty becomes visible on our streets, the housed public craves visual order. A neat grid of cabins behind a fence soothes that anxiety. It packages a crisis into something tidy and photogenic. Politicians suffer from tangibility bias: you can bolt a corporate plaque to a cabin wall and cut a ribbon in front of a gate. You cannot photograph a portable rent supplement. So we fund the thing that makes the giver feel better, not the thing that actually works. And the data is damning: -Setup costs run roughly $99,000 per unit with $29,000 in annual operating costs (Greene et al., 2025). -A 2026 scoping review of 116 publications found zero empirical evidence that these villages improve long-term health or housing outcomes compared to other interventions (Marshall et al., 2026). We are scaling an experiment, not a solution. It gets worse. Operators routinely use "program participant" or "licensee" agreements to sidestep the Residential Tenancies Act. Residents have no eviction protections, no hearings, no recourse. The landlord and the support worker collapse into a single entity. If you clash with your caseworker, you lose your roof. That is not care. That is control. The UN CRPD Guidelines are explicit: an institution is not defined by the square footage of its roof. It is defined by isolation, segregation, and lack of control. A tiny home village is an institution broken into smaller pieces. And if municipalities need a financial reason to care about that distinction, they should look at what just happened in Nova Scotia. The province agreed to a $34 million class-action settlement for segregating people with disabilities (Disability Rights Coalition v. Nova Scotia, 2021 NSCA 70). Every gated compound we fund today is concrete being poured for the lawsuits of 2035. We already know what works. The Canadian gold standard is At Home / Chez Soi: scattered-site private apartments, portable rent supplements that belong to the person, and decoupled mobile support teams. It is boring. It is invisible. And it has the evidence base that tiny homes do not. Safety without autonomy is just custody. Swipe through the presentation below. I would genuinely like to hear from people working in housing, municipal planning, and legal advocacy on this. Are we building solutions, or are we just organizing the visible symptoms of poverty? - - - #HousingPolicy #HousingFirst #HumanRights #PublicPolicy #DisabilityRights #HousingCrisis

UK Property Cost Experts for Eastern Eye Feature

#Mediaquery #Journorequest #propertymarket I’m currently reporting a feature for Eastern Eye on the UK property sector focused on “The Hidden Costs of Buying Property in the UK.” The piece aims to examine the often overlooked financial realities behind homeownership — including stamp duty changes, borrowing pressures, legal and conveyancing costs, insurance, leasehold considerations, and the broader affordability landscape. The intention is to produce a clear, well-researched and informative story that helps readers understand the full financial picture beyond the deposit while reflecting current market and policy developments. I would be very grateful for expert perspectives and forward-looking insights from across the housing ecosystem, particularly on affordability trends, hidden costs, buyer behaviour, lending conditions, legal complexities, insurance pressures, and policy shifts. If you or the team managing your communications would be open to sharing brief commentary, it would be greatly appreciated. Experts I would be honoured to hear from include: Robert Gardner Lucian Cook Tom Bill Sarah Coles Alice Haine Myron Jobson Nicholas Mendes Mark Harris Jonathan Handford David Smith Tanya Williams Jennie Daly CBE David Thomas Richard Donnell If convenient, commentary can be shared via LinkedIn inbox or via email at [email redacted]. Thank you very much for considering this request. Expert insights will help ensure the piece provides meaningful clarity for readers navigating one of the most significant financial decisions they face. PS: Anyone with expertise in the UK housing and property sector who would be open to sharing insights on this topic is warmly invited to connect. #PRs #UK #Mediaquery #Realestate #feature #collaboration #easterneye #experts #opinion

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Case Study - Edinburgh Social Housing Damp & Mould Issues

Seeking a case study from an Edinburgh social housing resident with damp/mould I’m working on a piece looking at damp and mould issues in social housing managed by Edinburgh Council, and I’m hoping to hear from tenants who have experienced this. For transparency, these insights may be shared with journalists to help inform reporting on housing conditions in the capital. The aim is to highlight residents’ real experiences and where systems may not be working as they should. I’m particularly interested in hearing from anyone who has dealt with damp or mould in their council property in recent years (roughly 2024–2026) and would feel comfortable sharing what happened. Some of the things it would be helpful to understand: \* How long the issue has been ongoing \* Whether the council took a long time to carry out inspections or remedial works \* If the problem has returned repeatedly after “fixes” \* Any health impacts you believe may be linked (e.g. respiratory issues, skin problems, worsened conditions, impact on children) \* How the situation has affected day-to-day life (sleep, heating costs, stress, use of rooms, etc.) \* Whether you feel the property itself contributes to the issue (older buildings, windows, insulation, ventilation, layout) \* What communication with the council has been like \* What you think could have been done better \* Anything you wish decision-makers understood about living with damp and mould Responses can be completely anonymised. If you’re comfortable sharing, name and age are helpful but not required. Feel free to comment or message me privately. Thank you!

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