We can’t just build our way out of Australia’s housing problems • Andi Nygaard

We can’t just build our way out of Australia’s housing problems • Andi Nygaard

Housing minister Clare O’Neil says it’s “just too hard” to build houses in this country because “builders face a ridiculous thicket of red tape.” That must change, she says, if we’re to tackle the “fundamental problem” and “build more homes, more quickly.” This is the dominant view of Australia’s housing challenge — homes are too expensive to rent and buy because we don’t build enough of them, and we don’t build enough of them because there’s to…