$4 Billion Committed to More Indigenous Housing

Published on March 11, 2024

The Australian Federal Government has committed $4 billion (US$2.65 billion) to a new housing construction programme which aims to deliver up to 270 new homes a year for 10 years, as part of its Closing the Gap Strategy. It will be jointly funded by the federal and Northern Territory (NT) governments. It will be delivered via an agreement between the two governments, all four of the Territory’s Aboriginal land councils, and its peak body for remote housing, Aboriginal Housing NT. A 2018 agreement between Canberra and Darwin has built the equivalent of 650 homes in the NT’s 73 remote communities, which has contributed to lifting the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in homes that were not overcrowded from 78.9 percent in 2016 to 81.4 percent in 2021. However, that is still below the 88 percent target set for 2030....

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