Master Builders CEO: How to Fix Australia's Housing Crisis | The Yarn S3 E3

[@MrPAB34]

The MBA would do well to focus on the quality (or lack of) being pumped out by its 'members' When a certain KZbinr can run a channel on conducting site inspections highlighting sub-standard builds costing thousands to millions of dollars where there is little recourse for owners - MBA could really lift their game here before even thinking about solving the housing crisis.

[@Rinzler101]

Great work Andrew for addressing the issues...hopefully the government will listen. 👍

[@boolight]

Part of their solution is we need skilled migrants to build houses for govt mass immigration program, maybe stop/pause immigration & slash the number of foreign students instead.

[@leannemcdonald9657]

Won't the Forgeiners need a house to live in when here in Australia , this proposal would just create a much bigger problem then we already have, why carnt the government ask the retired builders to come back and train younger to middle aged Australians not Forgeiners or ask the able-bodied retired builders to come back to work to just oversee the young tradespeople ( mentor them ) , this could be a more feasible productive way , make retired do a refresher course so they are up to date with current building regulations, ( say as an example a 4 week cousre) a older builder could adapt quicker then a person with a language barrier and no idea about our Australian building codes there must be a better way then what is proposed , we need to support our youth here first, then bring more support to our builders , we must use whats available here and now, its just common sense

[@brettm.s.1169]

@@leannemcdonald9657 The problem of rushing immigration to make a Bigger Australia population to fill Boomer jobs, Build new economies and carry the older demographic, is that the Bigger Younger Population, in time, will need an even bigger population to carry them. And the cycle continues of an ever expanding population to pay for the one before. And government never plans the housing, jobs, schools, transport, healthcare or welfare to support them, as we see now.

[@nickm2400]

Younger generation aren’t interested in hard work. Better money doing NDIS work by a country mile. The successfully retired are just that, they don’t need to come back to work.

[@elijahduggan]

​@@nickm2400government intervention has meant that the entire economy has become distorted and the incentive structure is not allocating resources where they are most productive or efficient.....

[@petercaseybrick]

MBA is a waste of space,forget this mob,a whole heap of hot air coming out of them always has been this way.

[@peterleppanen3309]

So where are the costs when building a house by the builder?

[@shelbytops]

Ha ha MB are going to solve a problem they helped create must be April 1st

[@leonie563]

And we can't create a new unit in AUSTENDER for the HAFF and pile in those construction businesses and keep Unions out by creating Builder Inspectors as APS for the life of the HAFF because?

[@nickm2400]

Business is weighing up the risk of building, the more mature builders/ subcontractors aren’t willing to go broke and work on very small profit percentages… Happy to take a pass on the crap work and wait for something better. Those businesses on the debt treadmill are stuffed…

[@brettm.s.1169]

If “the MBA represents several commercial and residential builders” as she said at the beginning. Then there’s no chance of Affordable Housing, it’s all about the greatest income per sq metre so making low cost or Affordable housing isn’t in their best interests. And never will.

[@bblbuilding5011]

Yea, make builders earn less than a child care worker, better still they should work for free, maybe the government can give you a house

[@brettm.s.1169]

@ The govt could invest in preformed housing by much smaller companies who already make these smaller homes thereby increasing the income of these smaller companies, while the big builders get on with the big projects.

[@Anono8996]

Rental prices for housing people are paramount for a flourishing or busting economy. Keep Rental prices affordable and in turn Keep the nation's economy sustainably growing and developing.

[@mattyj4852]

Rent controls?! Ur having a laugh.

[@Anono8996]

@mattyj4852 I just notice a correlation of before and after, for example in 2017 and before hand the economy in Australia was functionally and sustainably growing with a average 3 bedroom house in south Australia for example costing around 250 to 310 per week rent, the petrol was around $1.20 per litre and food was much cheaper. I observed then that most people didn't face or become homeless or going without and stressing, those negative impacts have a ripple effect in the nation. Now rent for the very same houses are around 450 to 700 per week. And then petrol fluctuations from around $1.55 to $2.30 per litre, then food prices jumped in price also etc... I noticed that the general rule of a rent price per week usually being 1% of the total property purchase value per week roughly. These before and after correlations speak for themselves. Immigration surge causing a supply and demand issue on the country and a supply and demand issue causing costs to sky rocket on everything and supply and demand issues crippling critical infrastructure such as health care etc... I believe it's a national security issue to maintain healthy amounts of supply and demand to maintain healthy infrastructure of the country and keep the people safe

[@mattyj4852]

Well I agree there’s a crisis and largely agree with you about the causes, I just totally disagree with you about rent control being a solution. That would only turn a crisis into a farce.

[@Anono8996]

@@mattyj4852 i have no idea as to what would help the situations either, I don't know if rent control would be the best approach either, I do think some kind of investigation into a resolution for these issues are very much important.

[@Wacko2-wrx]

The IMF has said housing costs would need to be halved relative to the average wage to be affordable. Both major political parties spruik their policies but neither give us a time line as to when housing will be 50% cheaper. Both our political parties created this problem but they’re now wedged because the aspirational voters who own numerous properties will vote against any policy that reduces the value of their investments. Additionally politicians owning numerous properties would do likewise so everything being said is just elite waffle.

[@JohnPatersonAu]

Stopping immigration is equivalent to building 240,000 homes per year. For free. And we'd save over $40B/yr on infrastructure spending. Has this never occurred to you?

[@JohnPatersonAu]

You're still working for the BCA aren't you?

[@francisbrooks9454]

need migrants to build houses for migrants