Pick My Project: Field Trip Macedon Ranges pushes for tiny house to help homeless
THE Pick my Project scheme has stimulated some novel ideas including one from a Macedon Ranges youth group which wants to tackle homelessness.
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THE Macedon Ranges community has offered up more than 50 prospective projects to the State Government’s Pick My Project funding program.
The massive response includes projects ready to renew or invigorate facilities, support the youth and the elderly and broaden the work of existing community enterprises.
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Lancefield-based youth group the Field Trip Macedon Ranges has placed addressing homelessness at the heart of its project proposal.
The Field Trip founder Paul Kooperman told the Leader the $125,000 funding application would see a tiny house built.
“By chance some really good project partners have fallen into place and we undertook a similar project a few years ago where we built a cubby house,” he said.
“We would like to have a tiny house based in the Macedon Ranges to show our community cares about homelessness, which we think could be based at a neighbourhood house or similar facility.”
Among the committee for the project are Kyneton sisters Lilla and Charlotte Hausler, aged 13 and 11.
Charlotte said building a tiny house had sustainable principles behind it.
“By using tiny houses as the way of the future it would be better for the environment and it would be a more stable price as the prices of normal houses are rising,” she said.
Lilla said having tiny houses gave people across the community more choice.
“I know that it’s a diverse community of people that want to make a difference for young people in the future,” she said.
Macedon Ranges Mayor Jennifer Anderson said the diversity of projects put forward was impressive and a testament to the passions of people in the shire.
“I’m really excited by the projects put forward,” she said.
“A lot of the proponents have come to the council and got some advice, so there has been some real thought put into these ideas.”
Cr Anderson said it was now important for residents to vote on their favourites, to increase the opportunity of some being funded.
Voting for Pick My Project is open until Monday September 17.
Vote for your favourite project at pickmyproject.vic.gov.au
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