Invisible housing
March 14th, 2012
The brief extracts from the report’s index show the areas covered by the report and housing seems to be absent. As always we are prepared to stand corrected. Housing’s impact…
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Kirke Forbes – Nelson (Kumanara*)
March 13th, 2012
He worked on the original Housing for Health project in Pipalyatjara and never stopped working on the same principles as a UPK environmental health officer for the APY Lands, in the…
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Maintaining Indigenous houses in South Australia
March 9th, 2012
An interesting interview with one of the people charged with delivering these services to a remote location in the remote northern region of South Australia is attached. HH has underlined…
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UPK 5
February 21st, 2012
What started as UPK (1) in the late 1980s, as a way of getting a health message out to kids and adults using music, has continued to the present. The…
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Congratulations to the Aboriginal Housing Company, Redfern
January 20th, 2012
The Aboriginal Housing Company’s revised proposal went on exhibition yesterday, paving the way for three new residential and commercial precincts in a patch of land that has long symbolised the…
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Spot the problems?
December 18th, 2011
OK so let us look at a few of the issues raised in the article Is the transitional accommodation really tents, did the citizens of Elcho Island choose this and…
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A tale of two cities (or two very different tales of Mer Island in the Torres Strait)
December 15th, 2011
A brief report on the project from Housing for Health Manager on Mer Island, Greg Norman: In late 2009 HOUSING FOR HEALTH started community consultation on Murray Island, TSI QLD….
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The (not very good) $300 Nepal toilet
December 13th, 2011
CHDS staff have tracked down one of the cheap toilet programs only to discover that the residents have to put in over 6 times the contribution of the donor (who…
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Loss of Indigenous Housing Data
November 29th, 2011
A staff member of the AIHW revealed: We no longer have a contract with FaHCSIA to work on the FHBH data cubes, so will not be able to do any…
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Why things will change! Sago Studio, PNG, 2011
November 27th, 2011
The capacity-building agenda that Sago Network pursues is an outgrowth of Healthabitat and Global Studio’s own methodology and seeks to position communities at the centre of their own development process,…
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Why things change slowly
November 16th, 2011
Next time someone asks about Closing the Gap………give them a look at this planning proposal ……it may explain why things move slowly. The annotations have been added by HH (with…
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The end of FHBH and the future
November 16th, 2011
The last 2-year contract was aimed at allowing state governments around Australia, now responsible for Indigenous housing, to use and integrate the Housing for Health method, principles and products into…
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