Small floating houses made out of cardboard might not be everyone's cup of tea, but they are being considered as a housing solution in the Netherlands' unused harbours.The houseboats all feature a bathroom, separate bedroom, and folding bedsWikkelboats — or "wrap boats" in English — used for short-term accommodation are an original addition to the Rotterdam landscape, 73 kilometres to the south-east of the country's capital, Amsterdam.
The houses all feature a bathroom, separate bedroom, wall-integrated folding beds and an unfolding TV set."You don't see it in the daytime. You just sit on the terrace on the Jacuzzi because it's under the deck," Mr Waterval said. It's the largest floating office in the world, moored in the Rijnhaven harbour, and illustrates the necessity for climate adaptation.
No. Floating cardboard box homes are not the solution to anything.
Probably not!!
What’s happens if there is a storm?
I have already thought of that, JOATfloats , my idea is better!
Anything but building proper public housing.
Anything but address the reasons why so many cannot afford decent, or any, housing, I guess.
Probably built to better standards than most Australian homes.
So by my understanding of It compresssed cardboard to 'plywood' hybrid material water proofed used in the Netherlands, and not just normal cardboard.
A shame Australia is just too damn small to fit our burgeoning population!
Umm No. And when heavy weather hits town? Same with the stupid tiny house idea? Get real
Thousands of empty buildings and dwellings ; go figure ? Intelligence in short supply not so much greed !
BetteridgesLaw applies here.
DocWSJames No
Let’s put ABC journalists in them as a pilot program to see if they work.
It's the paper straws of housing
Is this a fucking joke?
I thought this was a parody article for a second. I don't know what us going on in the abc but some of you really should be fired
No
In a word, no.
no.
Maybe if we force the rich to live in them
Fascinating idea from Wikelboats, and from what the article says they're not prone to Wikileaks either.
Just stop tax break handouts to investors. EOS
Sure. Until it rains. Why are humans getting dumber?
Who’s going to fence the “pool”?
cyclone proof cardboard
How the fuck about: 1. End negative gearing 2. Stop immigration instead of telling the working plebs to go live in fucking carboard boxes?
No
Is it 'more' or 'less' flammable than apartment towers? What happens when they get wet? How do you heat something with thin walls?
No because the rich will steal them too.
Can barely keep a jetty in one place during a flood, would rather not lose everything I own every other year.
Confiscate the empty houses foreign owned. Problem solved.
No.
Definitely a better idea than utilising the 9% of properties sitting empty nationwide.
Labor to fund Scott Morrison's & LNP's stage 3 220 billion over 8 years $12,000+ tax cut year after year for politicians & high incomes. Economic vandalism. 220 billion would fund lots of social housing, better Medicare, NDIS, Aged Care & services to the vulnerable. smh AlboMP
Ask those living on the Hawkesbury think of this idea. We have been picked up their belongings off the beach 60kms downstream all year.
Will literally try anything but address boomer welfare aka negative gearing.
Here's a start, get rid of negative gearing.
What the fuck lmao
no
I hope not
Theres limited utility in that idea! On the Murray here, the houses would dissolve from all the wakeboats flying past day in day out.
briefly
Possibly mass sterilisation might be more effective 😂
I will not eat the bugs I will not live in a floating cardboard box I will not build my own coffin
No.
A million vacant homes but sure, floating cardboard houses are the solution 🙄
Na, I'd rather a revolution and the redistribution of wealth
I'm gonna say probably not
Hahaha the state of our our inflated housing market
No. No they could not.
No, they could not.
No
Stop tweeting nonsense
Maybe....but only in certain climate temperatures. I say....shipping containers is the way to go.
are we really going with 'live in a box on a river' before 'redistribute the millions of homes owned by jobless landlords' ?
There are plenty of houses already. Stop allowing greedy people to own several
Probably not.
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