Constructing and maintaining houses
HH helped supply data and experience to assist Peter Phibbs complete this paper.
The National Indigenous Housing Guide is noted as an important tool to improve housing:
If used in tandem with local knowledge, the guide can help to improve housing and health outcomes, and community
development projects overall.
And the Housing for Health program is noted:
The National Indigenous Housing Guide, agreed to by
Commonwealth, state and territory governments,
is now in place and is constantly being improved
and updated. Moreover, on the maintenance side,
a national Housing for Health Program has been
developed, which uses a health hardware approach to
prioritise maintenance tasks based on a set of healthy
living practices. The program has been independently
evaluated and has been shown to have positive
effects on both dwelling conditions and the health of
the occupants.
