We all need safe and secure housing to live good lives. Housing is a basic human right,
a crucial determinant of health and wellbeing, and a strong protective factor against
family violence and exposure to the criminal legal system.
Too many First Nations peoples and communities have been forced to live in unsafe,
overcrowded, poorly maintained social housing due to a lack of affordable housing in
cities, towns and most acutely in the bush.
Increase investment in public and community housing to meet current and future needs, provide useful economic stimulus, and increase supply of genuinely affordable housing.
Address the severe overcrowding crisis by immediately investing in a minimum of 8,500 new codesigned, culturally appropriate, climate resilient properties over the next four years.
Invest in remote housing maintenance and codesigned upgrades that includes addressing energy poverty and improving climate resilience, to meet current and future needs.
Provide long-term, sustained and significant investment in the First Nations Community-Controlled Housing Sector and specialist homelessness services.
The First Nations Housing - Election Priorities calls for further funding to the states and territories to ensure existing public housing stock is retrofitted and properly maintained as the climate crisis worsens.
The paper recommends sustained, long-term commitments to increasing and properly resourcing Aboriginal Community-Controlled housing, to meet the National Agreement on Closing the Gap.
Change the Record and Everybody's Home partnered to host a candidate forum into First Nations Housing in Leichhardt.
We asked candidates about their plans to address the chronic housing affordability crisis, lack of appropriate housing for First Nations peoples in Leichhardt and in Queensland, and what their parties propose to do differently.
Watch the full discussion below.
We ran out of time to answer all the questions asked by our audience members, so we took your questions on notice and sent them to the candidates for their responses.
You can find their answers here: