$4 Billion Committed to More Indigenous Housing

The money will deliver up to 270 new homes each year for 10 years, and comes on top of an existing building programme.

A group of Indigenous people sit at the front of one of the houses in a community in Pia Wadjarri, Australia, on Oct. 4, 2023. Tamati Smith/Getty Images

The Australian Federal Government has committed $4 billion (US$2.65 billion) to a new housing construction programme which aims to deliver up to 270 new homes a year for 10 years, as part of its Closing the Gap Strategy. It will be jointly funded by the federal and Northern Territory (NT) governments.

It will be delivered via an agreement between the two governments, all four of the Territory’s Aboriginal land councils, and its peak body for remote housing, Aboriginal Housing NT.