Queensland residents draws to the attention of the House that we are living in a housing crisis, yet people living in caravans, buses and caravans are being evicted off private property during a housing crisis.

These housing types are currently classed as ‘temporary’ accommodation by local councils across Queensland and managed with a local law that limits the time people can live in them. 

For many Queenslanders, these types of housing are the only affordable form of housing they will ever have, yet they cannot live in them permanently.

Many Queensland residents also wish to host these housing types but are not allowed under local councils' town plans.

Your petitioners, therefore, request the House to:

1. Recognise that buses, tiny homes on wheels and caravans as permanent housing choices so residents can live in them permanently and not on a temporary basis.

2. Do everything in its power to cause a change in local town plans across Queensland to allow rural landowners to host several tiny housing types including caravans, buses and tiny homes on wheels on their private land.