How to find more construction workers
by Brendan Coates
01.04.2025
News
Presentation to Property Council Housing Solutions Summit, April 2025
Australia’s faces a big workforce challenge in meeting National Cabinet’s target to build 1.2 million homes over five years. In this presentation to the Property Council’s Housing Solutions Summit, our Housing and Economic Security Program Director Brendan Coates explored how the skilled migration program and domestic training regime can be reformed to help supply the construction workforce Australia needs.
Brendan Coates
Housing and Economic Security Program Director
Brendan Coates is the Housing and Economic Security Program Director at Grattan Institute, where he leads Grattan’s work on housing, retirement incomes and superannuation.