The federal and NT governments will build 2,700 new homes in remote areas. Follow the day’s news liveThe prime minister Anthony Albanese has been speaking on ABC radio this morning, discussing $4bn Indigenous housing boost announced for the Northern Territory.Josh Butler brought us all the details around this earlier here.If you don’t have a secure home over your head, if you have overcrowding, then you will have not just housing problems, you’ll have health problems. You’ll have problems with justice issues inevitably that come from the tension that come from overcrowded homes and communities. And you’ll have difficulty getting education – it’s hard to see yourself having a greater opportunity in life if you don’t have that security of a roof over your head and in a way that enables you to actually go about the other things that that we need to close the gap on.Well, we think that the costings that we’ve made … is spot on the funding that is available. But of course, it won’t be one size fits all. There’ll be some homes that are just for smaller families, but homes by and large, it’s based upon three bedroom homes because we know that families in these remote communities tend to have numbers of children. Continue reading…
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Publish date : 2024-03-11 20:35:18
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