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Candid Tiny House Shannon Schultz
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Candid Tiny House - The Advocacy Season
Discover the groundbreaking journey of tiny house living in Central Victoria. In Season 2, we explore how the Mount Alexander Shire removed barriers by allowing tiny houses on wheels without permits or time limits. Learn from key players, including Kaz Neilson and Councillor Rosie Annear, as we share strategies for advocating change in your own community. Join us on Fridays for inspiring episodes that empower you to drive transformation in housing laws.
SEASON 1: A series of honest interviews with people who have built a tiny house on a Fred's Tiny Houses Trailer in Australia after taking a Workshop or Online Course with Fred. Mine these interviews for tiny house building tips that are grounded in reality and experience. Hear stories of everything that it's taken to build each tiny house on wheels, including: - the financial costs & the savings; - the things they wish they knew before starting out on their tiny house building journey; - the injuries & the community support; - the setbacks & triumphs; and - the compromises & innovations.Instead of presenting a shiny tiny house ideal, we take a gritty and realistic look at the enormous feat it takes to build a tiny house on wheels. Each client sets out to make a home that is a successful road vehicle as well as being a comfortable place to live in year-round.See a tour or video component of each interview on the Fred's Tiny Houses You Tube channel.Enjoy photos of each episode and read a short article on each tiny house story on the Fred's Tiny Houses Blog.Be inspired by all the people who have walked the path before you.Access an informed community of conscientious tiny house builders and see the results of their efforts on Fred's Tiny Houses YouTube channel, then start your build well informed and better equipped for the journey ahead! Season 1 (E1/6) starts on Friday 24th September 2021.All the interviewees are in Australia and we focus exclusively on information that is relevant to Australia. Shannon Schultz is your host on Candid Tiny House. She talks to people every day about their tiny house projects at Fred's Tiny Houses and enjoys getting real about tiny houses and everything that is involved in making them and living in them. She picks up the technical stuff from Fred (her husband) and loves catching up with clients to celebrate their journey and their tiny house successes! :-)
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New Campaign, New Strategies
Send us a Text Message.This is season 2 of Candid Tiny House where we peek behind the scenes of the successful campaign to change tiny house laws in Central Victoria, to show you how you can campaign to replicate the changes in your home town. Kaz Neilson is key to this second attempt at changing tiny house laws. She is the coordinator for My Home Network, the driving force behind the new campaign. Kathryn McGoldrick is a tiny house dweller and advocate, who solved her homelessness through bu...
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First Attempt at Changing Local Tiny House Laws
Send us a Text Message.This is Candid Tiny House, hosted by Shannon Schultz from Fred’s Tiny Houses. Usually this is a podcast interviewing people about their tiny house builds. This season, Season 2, we are doing something different. Last June, in 2023, the local shire here in central Victoria, Mount Alexander Shire did something extraordinary. They passed a local law that allowed for living in a tiny house on wheels on private property without a permit or a time limit. They removed the bigg...
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Introducing Season 2 : The Advocay Season
Send us a Text Message.This is Candid Tiny House. I'm your host, Shannon Schultz from Fred’s Tiny Houses. You might have heard that last year, our local government, Mount Alexander Shire here in Central Victoria, changed their local laws to essentially legalize tiny house living. You can now live in a tiny house on wheels on private property where there’s a dwelling, without a permit or a time limit. It’s great! It removes the biggest obstacle to tiny house living - council regulations - and ...
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Bonus: Michael Bartz (Canada)
Send us a Text Message.Michael Bartz built his tiny house on wheels in Canada. He built the trailer too. It took him four years and now he lives in it with his partner and their three cats. This is a bonus episode where we compare notes between building a tiny house in Canada and in Australia. The weight limits, regulations and seasons are all so different that it can lead to really different tiny house designs. But there are also lots of things in common… as we find out! Hear...
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Jim
Send us a Text Message.Jim wanted to be able to stand up in his bedroom loft, so he commissioned Fred’s Tiny Houses to come up with a design that included a pop-up roof that can be elevated when his tiny house is parked; and lowered when it is being transported. Inspired by a tiny house that he saw in Byron Bay, Jim engaged a local registered builder to undertake this project on a 7.2 meter Flat Top Trailer. In this interview Jim talks about:His decision to choose a tiny house on wheels...
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Anna & Rowan
Send us a Text Message.Anna & Rowan built their tiny house on wheels in Canberra and moved it up to Newcastle where they now live. They built on a 7.8 meter Protruding Wheels Guard trailer and have recently added a deck and verandah that more than doubles the living area available in their tiny house. Hear about their:Concerns in getting their tiny house insured as DIY builders;The formal valuation of their tiny house - compared to how much they spent;Transporting their tiny house th...