A block of flats is being built in my parent’s suburb and my Dad was commenting on how well built is appears to be. He was genuinely surprised- because he knows how badly most apartment blocks are built. He decided to have a closer look and when he walked by, he noticed that it is being built by Housing NSW. He’s assumed that the government must have better regulations for their own buildings… While it’s great that it is being built so well for Housing NSW residents, it is disappointing that the rest of us (in the private market) are subjected to less protection and poorer quality blocks.
If the government can seem to ‘get it right’ with their own blocks – what is stopping them from holding all developers to the same standards?