A pistillate who fled an abusive matrimony and moved into a tiny location connected her friend's spot could beryllium homeless due to the fact that of a council's 'ridiculous' demand.
Teena Keys moved backmost to Geelong, successful Victoria, aft leaving a convulsive matrimony and losing her housekeeping concern erstwhile the pandemic hit.
After sofa surfing for 3 years and being rejected from 60 rental properties, she yet decided to build a tiny location connected her friend's 100-acre property.
Ms Keys built what she described arsenic 'a relocatable tract hut' connected the onshore for conscionable nether $20,000.
But the City of Greater Geelong Council are not blessed with the statement that the 2 friends came to precocious past year.
Teena Keys moved backmost to Geelong aft leaving a convulsive matrimony and losing her housekeeping business, erstwhile the pandemic hit.
Ms Keys built what she described arsenic 'a relocatable tract hut' connected her friend's onshore for conscionable nether $20,000 astatine the extremity of past year
Ms Keys received notice that she would beryllium required to use for a licence to stay connected the spot and has been fixed 60 days to comply.
She said the outgo of the application, which could beryllium knocked back, would efficaciously nonstop her broke by the clip she hires a municipality planner and submits the paperwork.
'Then erstwhile I bash enactment the exertion in, it tin inactive beryllium knocked back, adjacent though I'll person to wage $2,000. And this is each earlier they adjacent travel to the cabin,' she told Yahoo.
'I've got to get a gathering surveyor for that, truthful the gathering surveyor unsocial volition beryllium astir $3,000.'
Ms Keys called council's request 'ridiculous' and 'unfair' fixed she was invited to unrecorded connected the privately-owned spot by her friend.
She got a indebtedness to acquisition the location and hole it up, reasoning she yet had immoderate stableness and a extortion implicit her head.
'During Covid, I was sofa surfing for astir 3 years, I didn't person stability. Losing the business, it conscionable enactment maine connected the back,' she said.
'You know, you don't expect to beryllium present astatine this age. You don't expect to beryllium wherever I'm at.'
Ms Keys said it's bittersweet to spot truthful galore radical doing it pugnacious due to the fact that of a dire deficiency of lodging successful Geelong and is urging the assembly to instrumentality a communal consciousness approach
Fearing she volition go stateless again, Ms Keys said the ordeal has been hard to travel to presumption with.
She said it's bittersweet to spot truthful galore radical doing it pugnacious due to the fact that of a dire deficiency of lodging successful Geelong and is urging the assembly to instrumentality a communal consciousness approach.
Ms Keys is calling connected section authorities not to marque things harder for radical who are uncovering their ain solutions successful the midst of a cost-of-living crisis.
'Wouldn't it beryllium fabulous to get radical disconnected the streets and retired of their cars and into tiny homes connected properties that are different often lone inhabited by "lonely farmers",' she said.
A GoFundMe has been acceptable up to enactment Ms Keys.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted Geelong Council for comment.
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