The project Defining the Impact of Regionalism on Aboriginal Housing and Settlement aims to analyse, quantify and improve our understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander housing needs. It will develop a regional knowledge-base to needs assessment by creating an interactive mapping interface to sharpen focus on what is a blurred picture of the true extent of overcrowding, tenant demand, housing stock status and regional governance. By establishing a comprehensive knowledge-base through the development of innovative search, retrieval and visualisation services, the project will generate a single online data model integrating qualitative and quantitative data with text based publications.

This knowledge-base will be compared against selected case studies from remote, rural and urban regions, in order to identify the most significant factors impacting on housing needs across different regions.

Image: Dawn Lalara, Angurugu, Groote Eylandt, NT Source: AG NTG, Remote Housing NT eNews, June 2012.