There are other ways of doing things.

"Austria has the second-highest share of social housing in its total dwelling stock among OECD countries, reaching 24 percent in 2019 (OECD, 2020). This high average ratio across the country is driven by the concentration of social housing in the capital city, Vienna, where the share of social housing is nearly 44 percent (in 2019). This performance results from a specific way of supplying and managing social housing, which involves municipalities and limited-profit housing associations. Both pillars of the system matter: for instance, in Vienna, almost 23 percent of households live in social housing provided by the municipal government and 21 percent in social housing provided by the limited-profit housing associations."
http://housingpolicytoolkit.oecd.org/www/CountryFiches/housing-policy-Austria.pdf

And just look at where Australia sits in graph (d).

According to a poll conducted by the Strata Community Association NSW in October 2021, nearly four out of every ten new apartment complexes in NSW had major flaws.

Massive immigration necessitated the construction of tens of thousands of additional dwellings each year, resulting in a focus on speed above quality and poor building standards.

The Albanese Government has now opened the floodgates to record levels of immigration, with 1.5 million net overseas migrants predicted to arrive in Australia by 2026-27, with the vast majority settling in major capital cities.

Building standards will be lowered in order to build apartments as quickly as possible in order to house the soaring population.

More shoddy high-rise apartments will be developed in Australia’s cities to house the Albanese Government’s rash mass immigration policy.

Not surprisingly, our dropkick politicians have allowed Australia to be the top overseas destination for Chinese property buyers in the first half of 2023. Chinese buyers are more active in the market than the official Foreign Investments Review Board data claims.

Chinese buyer activity helps explain why house values have risen so rapidly despite ongoing interest rate hikes. Chinese buyers purchase without a mortgage, and are unaffected by interest rate rises.

hey ttbn,
"According to a poll conducted by the Strata Community Association NSW in October 2021, nearly four out of every ten new apartment complexes in NSW had major flaws.

Massive immigration necessitated the construction of tens of thousands of additional dwellings each year, resulting in a focus on speed above quality and poor building standards."

Why do you think the standards dropped?

- Those same unskilled immigrants were given construction jobs

AC

That could be right. We might be seeing the same shoddy workmanship that causes horrific building collapses and deaths overseas. Safe buildings were not something we had to worry about prior to mass immigration of people from Third World countries where standards are lower than we used to expect here.

I certainly wouldn't want to live in one of the high rise chicken coops that are being flung up.

Hi AC,

True, there has been a decline in construction standards, and some of it is down to shoddy workmanship. But a lot can be attributed to poor design, and cost cutting on the part of developers. The old build it cheap, and sell dear philosophy. Over the years, project home builders were notorious for shoddy work and cost cutting. right back to the 1960's

p/s High rise is simply "meccano set" style construction, and given 30 years, we'll see how well they stand up.