Tasmanian families are trialling backyard pods for older children to live in, allowing them to have a space of their own while remaining part of the family unit.
The two-bedroom pods take about six weeks to build and cost between $130,000 and $160,000.
When moved into the backyard of a home, a pod can use an existing dwelling's power and water supplies. A recent University of Tasmania report suggested Tasmania needed an extra 11,000 social housing dwellings to meet current needs."[They're] either for an overflow for an existing household or potentially in the private market for someone to set one of these up as a rental in their own backyard," Mr Jaensch said.
The State Government is spending $5.6 million to put 40 pods in the backyards of Housing Tasmania homes in need of extra room. So far, 34 have been delivered."We're seeing a great response to them and so we'll be looking at doing more of this in the future, possibly for different cohorts of people as well," Mr Jaensch said.
For Ms Wilson, her new pod means she can continue with her studies while staying close to her family."I'll still want to go up and have family dinner and all that and probably come home every day after school [and] be like, 'how has your day been?', hang out up there for a bit, have a coffee," she said."Depends if they've got mud on their shoes. We'll see," she said.
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