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[–] FreedomAdvocate -1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Since our borders opened up post covid, our population has been growing at an average of 150k per quarter (https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/national-state-and-territory-population/dec-2024), while we’ve only been building ~40k dwellings per quarter in that time (https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/industry/building-and-construction/building-activity-australia/latest-release ).

Total dwelling builds completed show around 200k per year, down to about 180k/year since 2019 up until now. The “we build more homes than our population demands” is not true, at least not since Covid, and our population growth has absolutely exploded in that time almost entirely due to immigration (see table “Components of quarterly population change” in first link).

Also number of total houses is almost irrelevant when most people, especially immigrants, want to live in the big cities.