Episode
Would slashing housing rules boost supply?
- Podcast
- ABC News Top Stories
- Published
- Jul 28, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 185
- Processing state
not_requested- Canonical source
- https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/abc-news-top-stories/would-slashing-housing-rules-boost-supply/106967556
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/abc-news-top-stories-6001594/episodes/would-slashing-housing-rules-boost-supply/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/abc-news-top-stories-6001594/would-slashing-housing-rules-boost-supply.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
Could we be building more homes in Australia if complex regulations were wound back? What rules should we have around minimum floor space for homes, the size of windows or the number of car parks on site? The government's economic think tank the Productivity Commission has some suggestions that could makes homes cheaper and faster to build.