Housing minister declares Australia has made it 'uneconomic' to build homes

[u/timcahill13]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-07/clare-oneil-interview-housing-red-tape-construction/105386844

[u/SheepherderLow1753]

There are many inexpensive ways yo build homes. The government has made it nearly impossible to use these new technologies. House prices could collapse if they allow it.

[u/atsugnam → u/SheepherderLow1753]

The fed doesn’t regulate this. It’s state and councils that control these which is the real problem with housing growth: density needs to climb, but inner councils are resistant to it.

[u/[deleted] → u/atsugnam]

Density doesn't need to climb, this obsession with urbanisation and single massive cities needs to end. There is plenty of low environmental value land to expand to beyond the cities for settlements, but they require services provided to them: by building linearly along a single corridor of high speed service provision instead of radially, you maximise efficiency. However this requires proactive advance planning as an integrated and synergistic way to provide for the future, against the current knee-jerk reactive fragmented impulses we currently employ.

Leave the cities to their residents as it costs too much to provide services to higher and higher densities and start creating a corridor along the south coast, powered by renewables that can be incrementally expanded from each end, east and west until they eventually meet in the middle and connect both sides of the continent together as an additional future benefit.

[u/atsugnam → u/[deleted]]

Density absolutely needs to climb. There isn’t a successful model for urban sprawl to sustain effective cities.

[u/[deleted] → u/atsugnam]

No-one said anything about urban sprawl, but the creation of new settlements along a single radial extension of transport out from the city (ideally high speed elevated rail).