Cracks appearing ?

May 29th, 2012

  • Government
  • Media

BY: NATASHA ROBINSON From: The Australian May 29, 2012 12:00AM CONSTRUCTION firms contracted to build houses in Aboriginal communities may be tempted to “overcharge and under-deliver” as flawed remote housing…

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Constructing and maintaining houses

May 29th, 2012

  • Government
  • Media

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…

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Health Hardware

May 29th, 2012

  • General
  • Government

In a back to the future moment, HH has dug up a simple drawing done in the early 1990’s that describes an example of how the ‘stuff’ of housing, infrastructure…

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Yardmaster comes to the city

May 27th, 2012

  • Australia
  • Crowding
  • General

The Yardmaster exhibition (see EVENTS FOR DETAILS) brings the ideas, bits and pieces to the city for all to see what has been built in rural and remote areas of…

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When the detail is important …

May 1st, 2012

  • Australia
  • Crowding
  • General

When houses have high populations, people are poor and can’t afford baby baths, laundry tubs become a good place to wash young children.  If washing machine waste water has to…

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Erasing the Dots

May 1st, 2012

  • Australia
  • Government
  • Media

HH heard rumblings about the presentation material presented to the conference. Several reports about the HH paper were made public but we notice that a scant record of the conference…

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Indigenous housing quality in South Australia

April 21st, 2012

  • Australia
  • Government

According to the ‘contract’ between the Australian and South Australian governments under the $5.5 billion National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing, all houses shall comply with the Australian Building Code,…

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Have you been to school?

April 18th, 2012

  • Australia
  • Nepal

HH encountered this lack of basic facilities when our partners  CHDS (Nepal) and  Rotary were trying to establish a tooth brushing program, in parallel with the two current sanitation projects…

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Even stars have to work

April 8th, 2012

  • General
  • Media
  • Nepal

A local village committee and construction workers get the animation and description of important aspects from Bishnu Shrestha (CHDS Nepal). Better informed committees and construction workers means better built systems,…

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