Pre-built modular homes will be trialled in New South Wales to boost social housing, as research shows new home construction targets will not be met. Source: The Guardian.
Sites in Wollongong and Lake Macquarie have been selected to trial modular social homes under a state Government trial to speed up the delivery of new homes.
The Minns Government is still working through regulatory barriers for modular housing, which has not been rolled out at scale before.
The homes – previously used as temporary accommodation – are constructed using prefabricated modules made off-site to speed up the building process by 20 per compared with traditional methods.
Housing costs and availability were putting pressure on people in NSW and the state needed to use “nontraditional methods” to deliver homes sooner, Premier Chris Minns said yesterday.
“We are pulling every lever we can to tackle the housing crisis,” he said.
NSW Housing and Homelessness Minister Rose Jackson said the trial was a step towards revolutionising public housing delivery.
“Leveraging modern construction methods will help us provide sustainable, quality housing faster for the people that need it most,” she said.
The Government was working with the state’s building commission on standards for offsite manufacturing of homes.
Research from Oxford Economics Australia on Monday predicted more than one in five of the 1.2 million dwellings the nation is trying to build over the next five years will not be completed.
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NSW to trial prefabricated ‘modular homes’ to address housing crisis (The Guardian)
