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What’s the safety risk to children by encouraging homeless onto school grounds?

One Councillor Solves Housing Crisis:

By Discovering Every Car Park Is Actually A Suburb

Queensland’s housing crisis has taken an exciting turn this week, with one local government visionary reportedly identifying hundreds of hectares of “previously overlooked residential land” hiding in plain sight. Putting up a motion to the LGAQ Conference she hopes. This closely follows last article - giving up prime beach parks to camping by visitor Vans, from same Cr.

again the answer is: Car parks. Nothing new in reality - when investigations are already underway to construct properly designed buildings over carparks.

Delegates at a local government conference are yet to witness these creative ideas for accommodating people sleeping rough, prompting policy enthusiasts to ask the obvious question:

if a school has a car park that’s empty overnight, is it technically a cul-de-sac?

This concept could soon be expanded to include shopping centres after closing time, council administration buildings, sports fields, park-and-ride facilities, Bunnings overflow parking, and any vacant bitumen capable of fitting a Toyota Corolla. “For years we’ve wasted valuable urban land by letting people park cars on it.

What if… we parked homelessness there instead?” remarked a local. Residents reportedly welcomed the proposal with the traditional consultation process of finding out about it on Facebook. Urban planners are said to be studying whether line markings should be renamed “micro-lot boundaries”, while estate agents have already begun referring to Bay 17 near the basketball courts as “a compact, transport-oriented lifestyle precinct”.

School principals remain confused as to how Year 3 drop-off will work if the kiss-and-drop zone has become a mixed-use residential community by breakfast. Traffic engineers, meanwhile, have been asked to solve the difficult question of whether a “No Standing” sign also applies to someone making a cup of tea beside a hatchback.

Support services have quietly pointed out that homelessness is generally caused by complex issues including housing affordability, mental health, family violence, addiction and a shortage of supported accommodation - not a shortage of asphalt - but admitted this explanation is considerably less exciting - than inventing an entirely new suburb in the staff car park.

Of course these conference motions are only advocacy ideas and do not create policy, although this has done little to stop social media from assuming changes have already begun at the nearest primary/secondary school.