Builders demand migrants to construct houses for migrants

Developer Nigel Satterley has called for more skilled migration to help ‘solve’ the housing shortage.

Nigel Satterley, whose Satterley Property Group is the nation’s largest privately owned residential land developer, claimed that Australia had suffered an annual shortfall of 40,000 homes for over a decade. He claimed that without immigration changes to bring in more skilled workers, the situation wouldn’t improve.

“If we haven’t got the manpower, we can’t build them”, Satterley told The AFR on Sunday.