Tradie shortage risks housing target

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Labor’s ambitious plan to build 1.2 million new homes over the next five years could be stifled by chronic shortages of tradies, a new report has warned.

Australia needs 90,000 extra construction workers over the next three months to meet the federal government’s housing target by 2029, according to the report by BuildSkills Australia.

The government was working with states and territories to fix the housing crisis, federal housing minister Julie Collins says. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman According to Infrastructure Australia, trade and labourer shortages are growing at the fastest rate and will remain acute until 2025.

 

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