The building commissioner will gain strong powers to stop builders from forcing sales of off-the-plan apartments with defects to buyers.
Some owners who lost their jobs during the coronavirus lockdown face major financial difficulties.
The opposition claims the government risks a repeat of the Opal and Mascot towers debacles if proposed reforms are not put back before the upper house.
A confidential list of Melbourne properties with faulty cladding indicates the buildings are riddled with other construction problems.
Cabinet is still considering how it should handle the flammable cladding crisis more than six months after recommendations from the building commissioner.
Fire and Rescue NSW is so understaffed and"overwhelmed"that it can't do fire safety audits of most new apartments or advise councils on flammable cladding.
It's considered safe by many in the industry but quagmire caused by flammable cladding crisis means Port Melbourne apartment block has sat vacant for months.
Sydney apartment owners have told an inquiry that they are"in a quandary over what to do"about replacing flammable cladding.
Dame Judith Hackitt,the British engineer who led the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower tragedy,has been hired for a review of the state's building laws.
State government's tough talk is scaring-off builders from reporting dangerous buildings
Surgery in the wrong place,elderly Australians assaulted in their homes,high-rise buildings wrapped in flammable cladding. All happening,all in secret.