December 16th, 2021
Community collaboration and achieving a target percentage of local Indigenous employment is essential to the success of every Housing for Health project. Every Housing for Health project employs local…
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December 2nd, 2021
The Brownsville Partnership (BP) who are leading a Housing for Health Project in Brownsville, New York are doing a great job, getting the hang of the licensed ‘Survey and Fix’…
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November 18th, 2021
In October, Shelter NSW hosted an open forum discussing how Councils can deliver stronger outcomes on affordable housing for their communities across NSW. Councillors, candidates, council staff and community members…
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November 5th, 2021
Director, David Donald, talks with RMIT students. RMIT run a multidisciplinary course on Housing and Health. Dave talked with students about priorities in Housing for Health and the risk of…
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October 12th, 2021
What will happen if the water runs dry? The fate of the NT’s largest ever groundwater extraction licence is distressing traditional owners of Ali Curung in the Barkley Region, NT….
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October 7th, 2021
The condition of housing has long been associated with the health of people. Recent research featured in the Australian Indigenous Health Bulletin further proves the importance of ‘Housing for Health’;…
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September 23rd, 2021
Crowding has been acknowledged as a social determinant exasperating the risk of COVID-19 transmission. As various news articles report, 30 caravans have been established in Wilcannia as temporary accommodation for…
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September 9th, 2021
All Housing for Health Projects have been put on hold except for emergency repairs due to this latest COVID outbreak. There are over 13 active Housing for Health projects across…
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August 12th, 2021
WSUP (Water & Sanitation for the Urban Poor) uses evidence from various high density marginalised African cities to create a report and resource: Slum Upgrading: how can we link water…
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August 9th, 2021
You might remember our February news item on the “Building Better Homes” initiative to see mandatory minimum accessibility requirements of ‘gold’ brought into the National Construction Code (NCC). In April…
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August 6th, 2021
Learning about the effects of the current US Heat dome, Healthabitat is concerned for residents of the Navajo Nation – the largest land area home to a Native American tribe…
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July 1st, 2021
NEWSLETTER | JUNE 2021 Another year has gone by. We have been busy caught up in doing the work and haven’t taken enough time to regularly share with you what we…
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