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Kim Peart invites the Prosser community to engage in a conversation, with a postcard sent out that includes a list of meetings around the electorate.
The text of the post card is included with a list of planned community meetings.
Mr Peart asks questions and looks for answers.
How do we fix the housing crisis, which Mr Peart finds is now affecting country towns, as rents rise, and rental properties vanish into holiday accommodation, a problem recently found happening in Ross.
Kim has a few innovative suggestions, such as ensuring that there is no homelessness, that all Tasmanians have a home as a primary obligation of Government.
Mr Peart will be listening to the voters for their ideas, as he travels around Prosser, and at the community meetings.
Finland solved their homelessness problem, by providing homes, and discovered that it cost less to provide homes, when compared with the long-term costs involved in meeting the needs of the homeless.
Now the Finns are acknowledged globally as the happiest people on Earth.
Should we be that happy?
It is criminal level negligence on the part of the government that workers end up in tents at Elwick, reported in recent news stories.
When country towns have no rental accommodation for workers, where are workers expected to live?
Mr Peart has been exploring ways to solve the accommodation problem, and will present this at the community meetings.
There is more than one option to fix the housing crisis, but at the end of the day, ensuring everyone has a home when and where they need to live, is the acid test of any solution to homelessness.
Homelessness drives a feeling of fear in our society, prompting renters to pay more for rent, when they can get a place to rent, eating into income.
By ending homelessness as a government policy, Mr Peart suggests that rents will come down.
It is housing scarcity and fear of ending up on the street, which drives rents up.
Mr Peart looks for opportunities to improve life in Prosser, ensure homes for workers, and create work.
There is more we can do with tourism in country towns, where Mr Peart suggests a walking and cycle trail connecting towns.
Walking and cycle trails will lead to a mini coach service evolving, connecting country towns to cities and airports, which will also benefit country residents.
Evolving a mini coach service will allow people to live in country towns and commute to the cities for work and entertainment.
This approach will create work, careers and new enterprises in rural Tasmania.
Decentralising the Tasmanian economy and population will help prepare Tasmania for one of the all too predictable events of climate change.
Mainlanders are already moving to Tasmania and buying up houses, or building new ones.
Should there be a sudden influx of mainlanders seeking a cool change in Tasmania, how will we cope?
People will largely move where the services are, which are found in cities, which will increase traffic congestion, drive up rents, and drive more people onto the street.
We need to plan for an all too predictable future with a much larger population, and we will not be able to stop that influx by people migrating within our nation.
A program that designs homelessness out of our society, and decentralises the population, will be essential components of a climate change plan for our island.
Rather than rewarding property owners for charging higher rents, as with the $13,000 from the government and other guarantees, a program that provides homes for all Tasmanians will be a far better use of limited resources.
When faced with an emergency, we need to think and plan in terms of an emergency.
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ABOUT Kim Peart ~ Born in 1952, Kim was raised in Howrah when it was farmland, played in the old fort in Bellerive, and rode the old ferries to Hobart to go to movies. Kim plied the life of a visual artist, with a studio in the Salamanca Arts Centre, and then in Murdunna, and later in Bellerive in the old bakery. In 2007 Kim was listed among Tasmania’s top 200 movers and shakers for “An urban bushland conservationist who has worked tirelessly over the years to maintain walking tracks and protect wildlife from the encroachment of bush-front housing developments.” Kim is campaigning for an Australian Convict Trail, with the Tasmanian leg running from the ferry in Devonport to Port Arthur, along with foot and cycle paths by Tasmania’s highways and roads. After being at the launch of an Australian Space Agency last September, Kim is seeking ways to create employment, careers and new enterprise in Tasmania with the global space industry. Kim now lives in Ross, with his wife Jennifer, and a small tribe of alpacas.
Authorised by: Jennifer Bolton, 39A Bridge St, Ross
Kim Peart, Independent for Prosser
