Low cost housing solution - self sufficient villages $50,000 sections

In this video I work out how to provide cheaper houses for people in the countryside, by rebuilding older villages and localities.Show more

I sometimes come up with these ideas when I have had my morning coffee and had no breakfast, but I came up with this idea yesterday, while visiting my brother, who lives in the country. His house is substantially off grid.

The fundamental problem with expensive housing is the cost of land, the land is expensive because it comes with a bundle of reticulated services which are at great cost.

All the houses are built on piles so they can be transported or moved.

0:00 Intro
1:10 Villages
1:30 How did we get like this?
1:50 Identify places
3:35 Where to place sections
4:00 Layout for access
4:30 Water and septic system
5:30 What kind of house?
5:50 Lay out a grid.
6:05 Horticultural land is reserved.
7:00 Schools
8:00 What to build
8:30 Kit set house
9:15 Transportable houses
10:00 Finding more village locations
10:50 Prime example of village layout
11:15 Water supply
12:05 Multi Chamber septic system
12:50 Low pressure hot water and grid tied electricity
13:20 Gravel roads, then paving stones
13:50 Summary Conclusion

Different things for different people.

I would, for sure, sell my house in the suburb and move to what I describe. I would free up cash, I weed prefer to be more independent and substantively off grid.

As I said, I would choose places with schools. If there are a cluster of houses, I am sure they would support a dairy or convince store. It is always chicken and egg with the establishment of services.

My major complaint, is that you can't do this anywhere in New Zealand, empty land in the country is very expensive. There is not a shortage of land, there is high cost land with services.

All the houses in New Zealand would fit in a 100 x 100km square. Every house on a half acre section. All of that would fit on just the flat land in Southland. On quarter acre sections, it would be a square 65km per side.

There is almost no option to live on a self sufficient segment of land in New Zealand, probably the same in Australia and Canada, because land use is tightly controlled - for some reason - over regulated. The United States does not have this problem, at least, in enough locations that anyone can buy cheap land - in the order of a few thousand dollars per acre.

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