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"Australia is in the grip of a severe housing shortage. Many people are finding
it extremely difficult to find a place to live in the face of rising rents and
property price surges. Homelessness is rising sharply. Tent cities are becoming
more common.
The federal government has pledged to encourage the building of about 1.2
million new dwellings over the five years from mid-2024. The problem is,
conventional building techniques are unlikely to be able to respond to the
scale of demand quickly. Conventional building is expensive and slow. Faster,
cheaper construction methods are needed.
There might be a way to accelerate the build. In recent years, car
manufacturers Ford, General Motors and Toyota have shuttered their Australian
factories, due to intense global competition.
Before these factories fell silent, they were home to trained workers, advanced
machinery and efficient production systems. In Australia, companies such as
Hickory Group are working to turn car factories into house factories. In Japan,
Toyota has been making modular housing for decades, by adapting car production
line techniques.
Scaling this approach up in Australia could simultaneously address industrial
decline and housing demand."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
