75. Improve Aboriginal housing outcomes and enable options for housing infrastructure by:
- ensuring Aboriginal social and affordable housing activities and targets correspond with Target 9 of the National Agreement on Closing the Gap to increase the proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in appropriately sized (not overcrowded) housing to 88% by 2031
- delivering sustained investments in Aboriginal housing and capacity building of Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations to embed housing services into strategic organisational plans, attract and retain skilled staff, and deliver meaningful associated training opportunities, in accordance with Recommendation 6 in the Aboriginal cultural heritage, wellbeing and enterprise chapter
- developing a clear, targeted social impact strategy to demonstrate housing need, to seek required funding from the Australian Government, as well as attract diverse financial participation from the private sector where possible.
The WA Government responded to Foundation for a stronger tomorrow in February 2023. Recommendation 75 is fully supported. For further information please refer to the response document.
Actions:
75.154 Implement the Aboriginal Empowerment Strategy and delivery against the National Agreement on Closing the Gap targets, including ensuring housing activities and targets align with Closing the Gap Target 9 and that initiatives help to build the Aboriginal Community Organisation sector
1/1 action on schedule
75.154 On schedule
DoC is progressing activities to strengthen the ACHO sector and contribute to Outcome 9 of the National Agreement, with 2 goals being pursued. The first being to confirm the strengths and needs of the ACHO sector to understand opportunities and challenges for sector growth, and secondly to assist ACHOs to achieve community housing registration and facilitate access to more funding opportunities to increase community housing supply. The Housing and Community Infrastructure Partnership Planning Group Work Plan 2024-25 focuses on developing place-based responses to the drivers of overcrowding (Target 9a) and to compiling data on essential service provision in all of the State's remote communities with a population of 50 or more (Target 9b). Plans for the Remote Communities Fund housing investment ($140m), including locations and schedule, were confirmed in H1 2024.