Jane St accommodation park in Gympie gets tiny homes

Eight new tiny homes are being built for a Gympie emergency housing park in the latest efforts to address the region’s rental and temporary accommodation crisis.

Models of the tiny homes set to come to Gympie for temporary accommodation.

Eight tiny homes will make the journey along the Bruce Hwy from Brisbane to Gympie in the hope of helping address the housing crisis gripping the region.

The state government announced the project which aims to provide temporary accommodation to those in need, with the homes being built at a family-run factory in Brisbane.

The homes will be installed at the Gympie Recovery Accommodation Park which the state government and Gympie Regional Council reopened to provide housing to flood affected residents last year.

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Gympie Recovery and Accommodation Park was set up after the floods to house people needing temporary accommodation and has remained open.

The temporary accommodation boost comes amid Gympie’s historically low rental vacancy rates, as well as the region having 150 applicants waiting for social housing as of October last year.

Tight rental vacancies, ongoing housing shortages, domestic violence, mental health issues, and substance abuse, all compounded by the disastrous January and February floods of 2022 are contributing to the housing issues felt across the region.

The inside of an Alphaline tiny home. Eight of these homes are set to come to Gympie Recovery and Accommodation Park by September 2023. Picture: Alphaline Tiny Homes.

The tiny homes can accommodate a single or a couple and consist of a bedroom, a living room, a bathroom, and a full kitchen.

The homes will add to 24 other cabins in the old Jane St caravan park.

Alphaline Tiny Homes is building the homes at a Brisbane factory, to be delivered to Gympie and ready for occupants in September.

One of the factory-built tiny homes that Gympie is set to get for temporary accommodation.

“More than 4400 homes have been built since we came to government, and Queenslanders can expect more through our record $3.9bn investment to help deliver 13,000 homes,” minister for housing Meaghan Scanlon said in a statement.

“We’ve delivered on average more than 10 homes a week since coming to government and I want to make sure we see more projects like this delivered as soon as possible.”