Multiple generations squeeze under one roof to combat housing, cost-of-living crisis

A Queensland family is squeezing four generations into their home, as the housing crisis worsens.

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00:00Four dwellings on an 800 square metre block.

00:05We've got a rather large family and we wanted to be able to accommodate sons, daughters,

00:13grandchildren coming and going.

00:14This Gold Coast couple designed an award winning home to comfortably sleep 20 people.

00:19It includes their home office and their sons and grandkids live next door.

00:24We've organised it so that you don't need to see each other if you don't want to.

00:29There's plenty of different ways in and out of the site.

00:34At Binogun this family's kitchen is about to get busier.

00:37Yeah we had to do some extensions, just an extra pad that we've got on the property

00:42to fit both the eldest kids in and have mum and dad move in downstairs.

00:47In a couple of months they'll have four generations living under one roof.

00:51It's pretty easy to be honest, it's not like you would probably think it would be where

00:55we might get under each other's skin, we all get along really well.

00:57They're cutting costs while keeping an eye on the family matriarch who just had a second hip replacement.

01:03I don't really plan on getting old and immobile, I plan on being mobile.

01:10But it will be nice to know they're there, yeah.

01:12The last census showed the average Australian household size is decreasing

01:17and as cost of living grows there are calls for us to be smarter with space

01:21and squeeze more people into our homes.

01:24You need to change like how they're designed and you know,

01:27can houses be designed for example for maybe two couples or three generations

01:32or two generations or something where you can actually have privacy within the same house.

01:37A creative solution to the housing crisis.

01:44There are six people who have them with who have this far,

01:48there are six people, but two advances so that they don't eat us

01:50you can't reach it.

01:52They can reduce the public policy,

01:53but there are six people which are the largest citizens trying to share with the public policy.

01:57That has happened before,

01:58before working on the final dashboard,

01:59to review theịchス in the backboard and to ensemble process,

02:01to continue to advance it on like our peak restoration.