NAIDOC Week
We are committed to championing the Uluru Statement from the Heart within our organisation and our networks.
We are committed to championing the Uluru Statement from the Heart within our organisation and our networks.
Knowing this history means they can take a trauma informed approach and better understand the support needs of each family.
The service is being delivered consistently with Housing First, and finding housing is the highest priority element of the caseworker; however, housing remains scarce in the midst of WA’s rental crisis.
Only around a third of Indigenous Australians own their own home, compared to two-thirds of non-Indigenous people.
Their newly released Housing Solutions and Action Plan outlines RACWA’s objective to increase awareness of housing issues in regional WA.
In order to progress the project, a subcommittee of the AHCWA Board, the AHCWA Social Services Committee, has been established.
The research was conducted by Sandra Harben at Noongar Mia Mia and were endorsed by the Telethon Kids Institute Ngullar Coorlungar Elder co-researchers.
Confirming the pain felt by many people in the private rental market, the latest release of the Rental Affordability Index (RAI) reveals that rents across Western Australia remain unaffordable for many West Australians, in particular for people on low incomes.
Shelter WA has put together this High-Level overview of some of the housing and homelessness provisions in the WA 2020-21 Budget Papers.
Shelter WA congratulates the McGowan Government on its fourth budget. Having a safe and secure home and building the homes so nobody is left behind is critical not only to keeping everybody safe but to drive economic and social recovery.
Facilitating the conversation between the Elders and the Minister was Shelter WA Board Member and Chair of Noongar Mia Mia Mr Gordon Cole who reflected on the solutions needed to increase housing supply and end homelessness for Aboriginal people.
This year’s Homelessness Week had a focus on ending Aboriginal homelessness, coinciding with the 2020 Danjoo Koorliny Walking Together Social Impact Festival and the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children’s Day.
We welcome the inclusion of housing in the Agreement; that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people secure appropriate, affordable housing.
NATSIHA will be open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations with housing as a principle mission and service.
Shelter WA went to advocate for increased investment in social and affordable housing and homelessness services, with a particular focus on the Aboriginal community housing sector.
As a part of shaping the reports’ findings engagement activities are being conducted with stakeholders throughout Australia.