Australia’s housing crisis is caused by three factors: Supply, Supply and Supply. Supply of Land. Supply of Materials. Supply of Labour.

A ‘Catch 22’ makes the crisis ‘wicked’: if migrants are brought to Australia to supply labour for building houses, housing must be provided for them to live, exacerbating the crisis.

Can a ‘wicked’ problem be resolved by the process of ‘reframing the problem’.

Firstly, we can match house sizes with the number of occupants and resize houses to provide dwellings that cost less to build and less to heat and cool. There are many ‘McMansions’ in Australia; buildings that require a large supply of materials, a large supply of labour and a large and costly supply of energy to keep the occupants to be comfortable.

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