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Indigenous access to mainstream public and community housing

Summary

Access by Indigenous people to mainstream public housing has increased by around 75 per cent between June 2000 and June 2004 (up from 6,339 to 11,087 households respectively). There is a need to further boost the stock of larger dwellings to reduce overcrowding for Indigenous households in mainstream public housing, and to continue to improve the sustainability of tenancies.

Project Number: 80234
Research Theme: Indigenous_Housing, Public_and_Community_Housing
Project Leader: Flatau, Paul
Funding Year: 2003
Research Centre: Western Australia

Description

The research design had four elements:

• A review of international literature on tenant incentive schemes.
• An audit of Australian tenant incentive schemes.
• Interviews with housing managers, tenant and community sector peak bodies.
• Focus groups with tenants.

The key findings of the research are:

• Despite concerns about managing anti-social behaviour amongst some public housing tenants, implementation of tenant incentive schemes is small scale in Australia.
• States and Territories, except Victoria, have implemented small scale tenant incentive schemes such as garden and 'tenant of the month' competitions.
• Housing managers' perceptions of tenant incentive schemes are that the benefits are marginal, they increase staff workload, run counter to the dominant philosophy of tenancy management, and promote inequalities amongst tenants.
  

More Information

Research and Policy Bulletin: Issue 065: Indigenous Access to Mainstream Public and Community Housing
62 KB PDF Document

Positioning Paper: No. 082: Indigenous access to mainstream Public and Community Housing
2.2 MB PDF Document

Final Report: No. 085: Indigenous access to mainstream public and community housing
2.36 MB PDF Document

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