Housing for Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians suffer from less adequate and affordable housing than any other group despite the efforts of national and state governments, especially in the past 30 years, to improve them. Among the reasons for their continued poor housing are their poverty, the different values placed on h...

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Published in:Housing studies 2000-07, Vol.15 (4), p.485-504
Main Author: Neutze, Max
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aboriginal Australians
Aboriginal communities
Aboriginal culture
Aboriginal employment
Aborigines
Australia
Australia: History
Australia: Social policy
Community Housing Program
Community Organizations
Demand sharing
Government
Housing
Housing associations
Housing Policy
Housing rehabilitation
Housing subsidies
Income
Low Income Areas
Native peoples
Poverty
Public assistance programs
Public finance
Public Housing
Rent
Self-determination
Social Programs
Surveys
Values
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Summary:Indigenous Australians suffer from less adequate and affordable housing than any other group despite the efforts of national and state governments, especially in the past 30 years, to improve them. Among the reasons for their continued poor housing are their poverty, the different values placed on housing by the more collectively oriented Indigenous people and their lack of control over the housing that has been provided for them. The Community Housing Program, under which government funded housing is provided and managed by local Indigenous housing organisations, has had some success in resolving these problems. A promising solution to the problems of the housing organisations may be found in umbrella organisations that are beginning to develop which can ensure both rent collection and accountability to funding governments and community control over housing design and management.
ISSN:0267-3037
1466-1810
DOI:10.1080/02673030050081078