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 15th, 2021
The two summers of 2018-20 were the hottest ever recorded in the NT. From December 2019 to January 2020, temperatures were about 4℃ above the long-term average. And in late…
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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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June 14th, 2021
Do you know about the ‘Housing for Health – The Guide’ or perhaps you have forgotten how to use it? Housing for Health – The Guide – Landing Page …
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June 3rd, 2021
Environmental health issues cross nations! ‘An estimated one in 10 Indigenous Americans lack access to safe tap water or basic sanitation – without which a host of health conditions including…
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May 20th, 2021
Closing the Gap Clearinghouse produced a document in 2013 talking on the value of health hardware. Its content has re-appeared in the 2020 17th biennial health report by the Australian…
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May 14th, 2021
Back to the NT! Healthabitat has just commenced the first of 10 new Housing for Health projects to be delivered across the NT over the next 2 years. Funded by…
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May 7th, 2021
National Close the Gap Day was celebrated in the middle of March 2021, a chance for Healthabitat to revisit important research and reports of its work aimed at ‘Closing the…
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April 20th, 2021
Community Housing Central Australia (CHCA) has recently completed Survey Fix – 1 as part of an annual maintenance program to improve house function! CHCA is an Aboriginal controlled, not-for-profit community…
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April 6th, 2021
A massive housing shortfall is contributing to overcrowding in Tennant Creek, Northern Territory. Fixing homes can be part of the solution. In January, the ABC published an article saying that…
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March 27th, 2021
Many small components make up the design of Healthabitat’s toilet designs for schools in Nepal. Quietly over many nights and many hours a core group of students, architects, designers, and…
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