Treehugger reports this morning that Mary Cusato’s Katrina Cottage has won the first ever Cooper-Hewitt People’s Design Award. The cottage design was developed in response having folks live in gross truck trailers after Hurricane Katrina. Soon, a national retailer in the states, Lowe’s, will be introducing kit versions of four Katrina Cottage in Designs.
Cute… and affordable… so can I build one in Trinity-Bellwoods? I know Toronto rents don’t equate to a national disaster, but baby, my bank account sure seems to think so.
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Turning public park space into private low density housing. A new direction for Spacing Wire 🙂
Comparing one’s own young-urban-bohemian cash shortage with
the suffering of poor people who’ve lost everything including their homes, jobs and community. THAT is a new low for Spacing Wire.
to extend that line of thinking, what about on the Toronto Islands with the other squatters. A nice wee cottage on the lake…
Islanders are squatters? They aren’t OCAP or a bunch of punks. They have a lease, sweet as it may be, but its leagal and I don’t see how that’s a real problem. Houses and cottages were there first….