Sustainable Indigenous housing in regional and remote Australia

Tess Lea; Liam Grealy; Megan Moskos; Arianna Brambilla; Stephanie King; Daphne Habibis; Richard Benedict; Peter Phibbs; Chao Sun; Paul Torzillo

doi:10.18408/AHURI7323701

Sustainable Indigenous housing in regional and remote Australia

Tess Lea, Liam Grealy, Megan Moskos, Arianna Brambilla, Stephanie King, Daphne Habibis, Richard Benedict, Peter Phibbs, Chao Sun, Paul Torzillo

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Abstract

This research explores what is required for sustainable Indigenous housing in regional and remote Australia to deliver positive health and wellbeing outcomes for householders, so that housing stock is maintained at high levels over time and is designed with climate change challenges in mind.

Current regional and remote Indigenous housing stock is unable to provide consistently healthy and comfortable indoor environments. Operating and maintenance costs are three times greater for remote housing than in capital cities, so developing strategies to reduce these costs is a key goal. The adoption of life-cycle costing (LCC) frameworks offer potential to reduce expensive responsive repair work while guaranteeing amenity to householders. An LCC framework requires thinking of the lifespan and benefits of a structure within which savings might be derived by strategic investments.

This report finds attention to climate change is not yet a feature of Indigenous housing and infrastructure agreements, with inadequate funding and attention paid to climate preparedness in new builds, refurbishments and retrofit programs. This is despite the impact of extreme temperature on both householder wellbeing and health hardware.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Melbourne, VIC
Publisher	Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
Number of pages	116
ISBN (Electronic)	9781922498359
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18408/AHURI7323701
Publication status	Published - 4 Nov 2021
Externally published	Yes

Publication series

Name	AHURI Final Report
Publisher	Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI)
No.	368
ISSN (Electronic)	1834-7223

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Copyright the Publisher 2021. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.

Keywords

Climate change
Employment
Environmental health
Healthy housing
Housing
Indigenous housing
Life cycle costing
Property management
Repairs and maintenance
Thermal comfort

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Sustainable Indigenous housing in regional and remote Australia

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