What factors support Indigenous households to maintain stable tenancies?
• Sustainable housing for remote Indigenous Australians needs to include culturally appropriate design, environmental efficiency, housing layouts which encourage healthy living, training and employment for the housing sector workforce, full costing of projects across their life cycle, innovative construction, procurement and ownership arrangements — Project 30354. • Links to external services as well as tenancy support programs are crucial in ensuring stable tenancies and avoiding homelessness. (Project 80372) Tenancy incentive schemes also offer some benefit — Project 80234. • Adequate funding and resourcing of Indigenous housing providers would also assist in providing and maintaining the stock of housing required to support tenancies. The deficit in funding for Indigenous public and community housing is nine time more than for non-Indigenous housing on average. This deficit is even more acute in very remote areas. The deficit is largely due to poor quality, high maintenance housing
