Why Australia's Megaproject Boom May Deepen the Housing Crisis Australia's infrastructure boom has reached stratospheric levels, with a staggering $242 billion worth of major public projects in the pipeline over the next five years.
While these ambitious plans are touted as essential to driving growth and modernization, they pose a stark warning sign for the nation's housing crisis: we're building megaprojects on borrowed time.
A chronic shortage of skilled labor and materials threatens to derail even the most well intentioned projects.