World Habitat Awards ceremony in Mexico
October 5th, 2011
Click here to see more of the World Habitat Day HH received the 2011 World Habitat Award from Diane Diacon: the Building and Social Housing Foundation, Joan Clos: the Executive…
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Money Money Money
September 29th, 2011
Healthabitat supports the overall goal and scope of the National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing and the total program budget of $5.5 billion dollars. However, we cannot get the…
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Business and social business
September 26th, 2011
HH had to carefully consider the best structure to deliver a broad range of work associated with the Housing for Health program. We knew the business model used would impact…
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FHBH 9 at a glance
September 23rd, 2011
This will be the last in the series of national Fixing Houses for Better Health (FHBH) projects. HH thinks the projects run under this round of FHBH were very successful…
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Fix work compared
September 22nd, 2011
So when the NT Intervention kicked off with a bang, the federal government of the time shouted about the Community Clean Up project. This project was to survey and fix…
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House improvement in the midst of policy chaos
September 20th, 2011
Running from 1999 to 2011, the end of the FHBH program reveals some important facts. Housing around Australia has not improved in over a decade despite the money spent by…
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Canadian Housing problems
September 15th, 2011
Poor planning, years of neglect and remoteness combine in Canada to maintain the most basic housing problems and keep them out of general view.The attached article reveals some very poor…
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Fred Hollows Foundation gives support
September 11th, 2011
The Fred Hollows Foundation supports current Healthabitat work in Central Australia and have voiced their congratulations on their website Dr Fred Hollows was influential in guiding the very early UPK…
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AIATSIS National Indigenous Studies Conference 2011
September 7th, 2011
Young and old: connecting generationsThe Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population is relatively young. In 2008, almost half (49%) of Australia’s Indigenous population was aged under 20 years and a…
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Helping the team onsite in Nepal
September 6th, 2011
A manual has been produced by CHDS, Nepal showing simple tools on how the toilets are built, how they work and how they have been assembled. The manual includes all…
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On top of the world – new toilet roof in Nepal
September 4th, 2011
The next two village projects, Arobut and Dandagaun, in Nepal are under construction. To manage the cost increase of all materials and local skills since the first village program in Bhattedande,…
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World Habitat Award win
September 1st, 2011
Thanks to all that supported the Housing for Health work that won the World Habitat Awards for 2011. The win is important particularly at a time when the Australian Government…
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