{"id":71484,"date":"2025-08-15T11:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T11:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/71484\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T11:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T11:33:09","slug":"prefab-and-modular-housing-in-focus-at-canberra-economic-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/71484\/","title":{"rendered":"Prefab and modular housing in focus at Canberra economic summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Federal Government will use this week\u2019s Economic Reform Roundtable in Canberra to advance reforms aimed at boosting the use of prefabricated and modular housing across Australia. (main pic: SPACECUBE\u2019s<\/a> two bedroom modular Rapid Deployment Accommodation built in two days.)<\/p>\n

\"ClaireClaire O\u2019Neill, Federal Housing Minister.<\/p>\n

Housing Minister Claire O\u2019Neill said the summit \u2014 held at Parliament House from 19 to 21 August \u2014 is an opportunity to modernise the way homes are built in order to meet ambitious national housing targets.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are basically building homes the same way that we were 40 years ago, and that has to change,\u201d O\u2019Neill said. \u201cWhat I really want from the roundtable is to walk out of that room with a clear package of what our next set of reforms look like on housing.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the Government behind on its target of delivering 1.2 million new homes by 2029, O\u2019Neill said industrialised building methods such as modular and prefab construction would be central to increasing housing supply. She highlighted recent Commonwealth-supported developments, including a Sydney housing complex providing accommodation for 74 low-income households, more than half of whom were previously at risk of homelessness or living in unsuitable housing.<\/p>\n

\"\"Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers.<\/p>\n

Treasurer Jim Chalmers, who will chair the Roundtable, said the Government\u2019s productivity agenda includes investing in modern construction methods.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re investing in the housing sector, in more modern methods of construction, which will make housing more productive \u2014 prefab homes and the like,\u201d Chalmers said. \u201cBecause by doing that, we can build more homes, we can lift living standards and make people better off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chalmers said the collaborative format \u2014 bringing together business, unions, government and experts \u2014 would be used to identify practical steps to scale up offsite manufacturing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve already got a big agenda when it comes to productivity across skills, energy, technology and competition policy, but we need to do more. The best way to work out the next steps is to do that together, and that\u2019s what the Roundtable is all about.\u201d<\/p>\n

For O\u2019Neill, the focus is straightforward: \u201cIt\u2019s to build, build, build \u2014 and to make sure we\u2019re using every tool available to get people into homes faster.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Federal Government will use this week\u2019s Economic Reform Roundtable in Canberra to advance reforms aimed at boosting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,46],"class_list":["post-71484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}