Tiny houses and alternative homes are gaining councils' approval as they wrestle with the housing crisis
- Written by Heather Shearer, Research Fellow, Cities Research Institute, Griffith University

Australia’s coastal cities and surrounding hinterlands have long been popular with tourists, sea-changers and retirees. But they have a darker side. In the early morning you will often find car parks crowded with cars, vans, caravans and even tents, where refugees from the housing crisis have spent the...