In AMPLIFY’s National AMPLIFICATION on Housing, a mega majority backed unlocking more prefabricated housing. Prefab is fab, fast, and fair. Let’s make it happen.
Australia needs to build more homes. Fast.
But the way we build today is slower, more wasteful, and more unreliable than it needs to be. Projects blow out. Costs spiral. Defects proliferate.
Prefabricated housing (or Modern Methods of Construction) offers new capacity for construction: speed, certainty, and control.
Homes can be built in months, not years—with fewer delays, higher quality, and more consistency.
And AMPLIFY is campaigning to make prefab part of the national solution.
Why Prefab? Because Australia’s Out of Time
Governments have promised to build 1.2 million homes by 2029. But we’re falling short—by tens of thousands each year. One major reason? The way we build has barely changed in decades. By demanding bespoke homes, we’ve locked ourselves into a home-by-home approach to building. In today’s world, this is slow, fragmented, and costly.
Prefab flips the model—shifting work offsite to different degrees into modern factories where whole or part homes are manufactured quickly, safely, and at scale, without losing quality or the ability to customise and make one's home their own.
It’s not radical. It’s just being smart with existing know-how, like digital technology and automated manufacturing processes. And no, you don't have to have a factory.
In AMPLIFY’s National AMPLIFICATION on Housing, a mega majority backed unlocking more prefabricated housing.
Australians see the need to take advantage of faster, fairer ways to build. But the system keeps dragging behind—held back by:
- Outdated rules
- Insufficient scale
- Skills gaps
- Inflexible finance
- Industry myths
- And a lack of political urgency
That’s why we’re campaigning for change.
What We’re Calling For
Governments should catalyse growth by:
- Seeding the pipeline;
- Modernising regulations; and
- Mobilising skills.
This Isn’t The Future. It’s Catch Up.
Globally, countries like Sweden, Singapore, and Japan are already building faster, better quality homes through prefab. New Zealand is also reforming to make this happen.
Australia can do the same—if we get regulation right, grow the skills base, and seed scale and innovation.
Prefab isn’t just about speed. It’s about certainty, quality, and sustainability. Less waste. Higher quality. More homes where people need them.
Let’s Build Smarter—Together
The housing crisis won’t fix itself. But together, we can shift the system.
AMPLIFY is building pressure from the ground up—community voices, backed by evidence, pushing for bold reform.
Prefab is fab, fast, and fair. Let’s make it happen.
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