The Minns Labor Government is inviting the community to the state's first modular housing showcase as they continue to pull every lever to address the housing affordability and availability crisis.
The showcase will give people the chance to walk through a completed modular home, hear directly from experts, and see how this innovative approach to construction can help deliver more housing, faster.
The full-scale demonstration unit, built using a modern 'kit-of-parts' technique, highlights the quality, sustainability and liveability benefits of modular construction. Visitors will be able to experience first-hand how prefabricated designs can reduce waste, cut construction times, and still deliver safe, modern homes that fit seamlessly into local communities.
The open day will also help dispel myths about modular housing by showing how this type of construction, already widely used in Europe and other parts of the world, can deliver high-quality, modern homes that stand the test of time.
Modular housing is shaping up to be NSW's secret weapon in tackling the housing crisis, with the state among the first in Australia to embrace this technology at scale.
The open day will be held on Friday 19 September and is free for the community to attend.
Over the 2025-26 financial year, the NSW Government will deliver 90 modular homes across the state as part of its record $6.6 billion Building Homes for NSW program. This includes 80 duplexes on 40 sites across Greater Sydney and regional NSW, providing safe and secure housing for families.
This follows twelve years of privatisation, sell offs and neglect under the former Liberal National Government who oversaw a net reduction in our states public housing from 110,805 in 2014 to 95,765 in 2023. Further, between 2017 and 2021 their completion of 2,257 social homes, paled in comparison to the number they sold off or removed - 3,269.
Since being elected the Minns Labor, Government has been working to build a better New South Wales, with more, quality housing, located near the essential infrastructure people rely on.
In the past year alone, the Minns Labor Government has delivered 1,711 new social and affordable homes, the largest increase in government-built public, community homes in over a decade.
MMC refers to a wide variety of construction methods that differ from traditional on-site building. This includes prefabrication, kit-of-parts, off-site manufacturing, using pattern principles and modular or volumetric dwellings, as well as new technologies such as 3D printing, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI).
For more information on MMC, please visit: http://www.nsw.gov.au/homes-nsw/MMC
To register and attend the showcase, please visit: https://building4pointzero.org/projects/homes-nsw-mmc-program/
Quotes attributable to Minister for Housing and Homelessness Rose Jackson:
"While the Liberals talk down our modular housing industry and oppose new ideas to tackle the crisis, we are out there delivering. We want the community to come and see for themselves what these homes are really like."
"These aren't shitboxes. They are beautiful, modern homes built to last. Families will be proud to live in them."
"Modular housing is already used across Europe and around the world, and now NSW is leading the way in Australia. This is our secret weapon to tackle the housing crisis, building faster, reducing waste, and delivering the quality homes our state needs."
"We are inviting the community to walk through one of the first modular homes in the state and hear directly from the experts. This is about showing people what is possible and building confidence in new ways to deliver the housing NSW needs."
Quotes attributable to Prof. Mathew Aitchison is CEO of Building 4.0 CRC:
"This showcase is about proving what's possible. By taking a full-scale demonstrator from concept to reality, we're showing government, industry and the community that modern methods of construction can deliver quality homes faster, safer and at lower cost."
"NSW is leading the nation in trialling modern methods of construction at scale. This program gives us the chance to build an entirely new capability that will improve housing supply and strengthen the resilience of our building industry."
"Our research shows that systematising construction, through approaches like the System 600 kit-of-parts, can reduce waste, cut delivery times and give families access to homes that are modern, adaptable and built to last."
