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Remote Indigenous Housing Procurement and Post-Occupancy Outcomes

This research project promises to make a valuable addition to the body of knowledge regarding housing procurement processes in remote Aboriginal communities in Australia. It also has the potential to educate funders (government), ICHOs (community governance) and project facilitators (contracting companies) working in remote Australia as to best-practice administration processes leading to more positive outcomes of culturally responsive housing in using the social and economic capitals that Aboriginal people can bring to procurement. In order to appropriately procure Aboriginal housing in remote communities in Australia, it is argued that an envelope of ‘ethical fairness’ needs to cover all participants in the process; be they building contractors, Aboriginal occupants, government officials or others in procuring quality housing outcomes which attest to a shared future built environment that will last and that is representative and responsive to each other’s cultural, social and economic values.

Figure: Aboriginal tenant’s makeshift fence screens, Mt Isa.

    Aims: 
  • explores the relationships between remote Indigenous housing procurement and the broader objectives of Indigenous communities
  • contribute to an understanding of the potential longer-term economic, social, health and cultural outcomes of current and future housing policies and housing delivery programs.
  • aims to address the lack of published comparative analyses of case studies on what the authors gloss as the ‘socio-economic capitals’ of housing procurement methods.
    Outcomes: 
  • positioning paper
  • final report
    Status: 
  • Current
Project Contacts
Partners & Funding Details
    Partners: 
  • AHURI
    Publications: 
  • Remote Indigenous housing procurement and post-occupancy outcomes: a comparative study (Positioning Paper No. 129)
  • Remote Indigenous housing procurement and post-occupancy outcomes: a comparative study (Final Report No. 167)