9 x 3 Bedrooms Dwellings - NPARC Community Housing Project

Summary and scope

The Queensland Government Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Housing Action Plan 2019 – 2023 and Action Plan Highlights include commencing a $40 million capital housing program in the first year of the plan. This $40 million funding has been allocated equally among the 17 local governments for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander local government areas (including Torres Shire Council). Since that time the Australian Government committed $105 million to be used to address housing needs in remote Indigenous communities. A Mayors Workshop was held, and an allocation methodology agreed for the distribution of the funds with weightings given for population (60%), overcrowding (30%) and homelessness (10%) and applying a Building Price Indices using Rawlinson’s Construction Cost Guide. This allocation has resulted in funding of $8,385,607 (GST Inclusive) being available to Northern Peninsula Area Regional Council. Funds must be applied to increase the supply of housing in the community, through lot development, new construction, or extension of existing dwellings. The primary scope of this project is to utilize the allocated funding of $8,385,607 from the Forward capital works allocation to build new houses in the five communities comprising the Northern Peninsular Area (NPA)