Australia

The government said it would work with states and territories to pause further changes to the National Construction Code. It would then consult on ways to streamline the code, including the use of artificial intelligence to help tradies, small business and households in using the three-volume, 2000-page code.

No fuck, don't strap AI to this shit.

“Chief executive [of the Property Council of Australia] Mike Zorbas described the announcements as “sensible” and a “win” for housing supply.

“Let’s also put AI to work turbocharging housing delivery. A smart rollout of AI into planning and assessment systems will give decision-makers the clarity they need and save valuable time in delivering new homes,” he said..

Oi, I said no! Fuck.

So this is a property investment lobby group pushing for a freeze to further improvements to the national construction code and calling for the implementation of AI to weaken environmental protection.

Fuck off knob.

But former industry minister Ed Husic said this week he was concerned about a pause to the code.

Husic said the former Coalition government had frozen new homebuilding regulations, only to rush through a mass of changes in a short period of time. “People who’ve lived in older homes with regulations that weren’t as strong understand why livability is such an issue.”

This guy gets it though.

Given all the buzz words and dog whistles in their quotes, I'm going to assume this legislation will be ghost written by housing corpos, and will lead to lower quality houses, more approvals in fire and flood zones, etc.

Lets go flammable dog boxes!!! Sewage for all!

Fucking codes aren't the roadblocks, the whole damned industry has carefully set itself up to limit stock availability at any given time to maximise profits. Start punishing land banking.

This implies Australia's million average home value is caused by paper work! It is not realisitic. No government is going to significantly mess with house prices while home owners are the majority. Even if they build more, they will just increase immigration.

Bring back council-funded Building Inspectors.

They can help the builder with the paperwork and make sure the builder is adhering to all relevant guidelines.

Having the Compliance Arm (Contract Building Inspectors) funded by the people doing the work is an obvious conflict of interest.

We are paying higher council rates that we were in the past to get less service. The least they can do is hire building inspectors who are answerable to the Council and the Industry,