Kavitha Vipulananda

PhD Candidate, Melbourne Social Equity Institute, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Melbourne

Politics & Society

Analysis

Changing who owns houses, won’t fix how fast we can build them

Australia keeps reaching for tax reform to fix the housing crisis, but the 2026 Federal Budget still didn't tackle one of our biggest problems. What it missed was speed.

Sciences & Technology

Analysis

We've forgotten how to build houses

Construction productivity in Australia has fallen 53 per cent since the mid-1990s. Modern methods of building can reverse it, if we choose to scale them