Indigenous homelessness, housing and home ownership
LOCATION: Crowne Plaza, 32 Mitchell Street, Darwin
ORGANISED BY: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute16 June, 2009 This seminar will draw on the findings of three AHURI projects: Sustaining high risk Indigenous tenancies, ndigenous homeownership on communal title lands and Flexible housing design for Indigenous communities.

Indigenous home ownership on communal title lands

(positioning paper)
Paul Memmott and others / Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
A central theme in this research is the meaning of home ownership to Indigenous people living on communal title lands as opposed to those living on non-communal title lands.

Communal title lands are popularly perceived to occur in remote Indigenous settlements, where lands are jointly held in some form of a trust to the broader ‘community’. While less common, there are also communal title lands within the boundaries of a number of regional towns and metropolitan cities throughout Australia, which in some cases consist of conglomerates of freehold title blocks that are held collectively through a community housing organisation. By Paul Memmott, Christina Birdsall-Jones, Mark Moran and Stephen Long

Scoping the capacity of Indigenous community housing organisations

K. Eringa and others / Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
This project provides a detailed, contemporary, empirical understanding of Indigenous Community Housing Organisations (ICHOs) by addressing the nature of the ICHO sector, identifying factors that affect the organisational capacity of ICHOs as well as measures aimed at enhancing the capacity of the sector. Posted 12-01-2009

Indigenous homelessness

Indigenous homelessness: place, house and home (positioning paper)
Christina Birdsall-Jones and Wendy Shaw / Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute

The aim of this research is to understand the place, house and home needs of Indigenous peoples and how to address these needs through housing and other service responses that secure sustainable solutions and support stable life conditions. Posted 25-09-2008

Sustaining at-risk Indigenous tenancies

Sustaining at-risk Indigenous tenancies - positioning paper
Paul Flatau and others / Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
This study examines the role of tenancy support programs in assisting Indigenous households maintain their tenancies. It aims to improve our understanding of their operation and effectiveness in sustaining at-risk Indigenous tenancies. Posted 06-05-2008

An audit and review of Australian Indigenous housing research

An audit and review of Australian Indigenous housing research
Stephen Long, Paul Memmott and Tim Seelig / Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
This report presents the outcomes of a research project conducted by the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) Queensland Research Centre (UQ) on the characteristics and themes of the Australian Indigenous housing literature. The report examines the Indigenous housing literature from the 1970s through to the 2000s.
The aim of this project was to critically review the literature on Indigenous Housing in Australia with a view to conceptualising the body of knowledge on the subject in theoretically and practically useful ways, and identifying gaps and unresolved research issues that have a bearing on the creation and maintenance of a reasonable quality of residential lifestyle for Indigenous people.

No. 098: Flexible guidelines for the design of remote Indigenous community housing

This report is a response to the need for a flexible framework of design guidelines - a "design system" - for remote Indigenous housing. As such, the project will provide concepts and design principles to supplement the focus on safety, health, quality control and sustainability in the National Indigenous Housing Guide and related State and Territory guidelines, with principles for the design and modification of Indigenous housing that reflect the ways in which Indigenous people use their homes and which meet the cultural and social requirements of Indigenous communities in remote Australia.

Project name Flexible housing design for Indigenous communities