First Peoples housing
Alternative labels
Aboriginal Australians housing
Report
Why are special services needed to address Indigenous homelessness?
This report explores why it is necessary to design and deliver homelessness services specifically for Indigenous people.
Briefing paper
Constructing and maintaining houses
This resource sheet on Indigenous housing describes the best approaches to the construction and maintenance of Indigenous housing stock. The basic assumption taken in this document is that, in a resource-constrained environment, it is very important to focus on ensuring that the investment in Indigenous housing generates an improvement in housing function for the residents.
Report
Modelling crowding in Aboriginal Australia
This research project will seek to critically examine existing models of household overcrowding reported in the literature nationally and internationally in order to provide policy makers with ways to predict, measure and manage Aboriginal household overcrowding.
Report
A profile of homelessness for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
This report presents information on both Indigenous and other Australians, with the aim of providing a broad profile of Indigenous Australians experiencing, or at risk of, homelessness. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are over-represented in the homeless population.
Report
Housing and homelessness services: access for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
The rate of homelessness for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is four times that of non-Indigenous Australians. Homeless Indigenous Australians were almost twice as likely to sleep rough, or in improvised dwellings and shelters, than non-Indigenous Australians. The rate of home ownership for Indigenous households was about a third compared to two-thirds for non-Indigenous...