Mojo ♻️Rather than pursuing a high-rise slum future, immigration should be limited to a level below the nation’s capacity to provide high-quality housing and infrastructure, and within the natural environment’s carrying capacity, particularly water. Lower, sustainable immigration, in line with the pre-2005 average, will encourage the building sector to focus on quality over quantity and help alleviate the housing shortfall. The high-rise apartment boom of the last decade was an unmitigated disaster that we are still paying for.
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Australians still paying the price for last decade's apartment boom
Last decade saw an unprecedented number of high-rise apartment complexes constructed across Australia. A litany of structural defects uncovered in a 2019 Four Corners investigation entitled “Cracking Up” and elsewhere accompanied the high volume of apartments. “We’ve got a real problem here. It’s systemic and it’s infecting lots of buildings across the landscape, in all