RDAGE has commissioned Planning Context to analyse a range of housing data and to provide an up-to-date commentary on both Indigenous and social housing specific to the Goldfields-Esperance region.

The outputs envisaged for the project were the following:

• Produce a report which includes relevant data and provides commentary on both Indigenous and social housing specific to the Goldfields-Esperance region.

• Provide an understanding of the magnitude of housing issues, including data to inform regional planning and influence government policy.

• Provide information on housing pressures across the RDA Goldfields-Esperance region.

Due to the lack of comprehensive community-based social housing data, identified by almost all stakeholders as a major issue affecting the provision of social housing in the Region, the project did not fully meet its intentions. However, the research brought to light the urgent need for a social housing data base upon which to form an understanding of the magnitude of housing issue/s, including data to inform regional planning and influence government policy.