Potential home buyers, builders, property developers, the South Australian government and SA Water are bonded together at present by a common problem.While some who have finished building are relying on their waste being pumped and trucked out — a process known as tankering — even that is reaching capacity, according to SA's Housing Minister Nick Champion.
But just like the time it takes to build a new home, fixing the problems cannot and will not happen overnight.Which means the crunch supplying services for the housing sector could remain for months to come, if not longer. That's pre-COVID, before the Commonwealth government's Homebuilder scheme, before the Reserve Bank taking the cash rate pretty well to zero and the housing growth that followed; all issues SA Water have acknowledged as contributing to the capacity problems it now has in Adelaide's north, which it didn't predict.