Napranum Council CEO Margaret Barnes (second, right) and the council’s housing officer Lima Boseun joined QBuild’s Rick Parmenter and Alex Walsh and project manager Philip Gerchow to inspect a new home.
A promise to deliver more and better housing in remote Queensland communities is being realised with 46 new homes completed and 152 existing homes renovated.
Twelve communities — Woorabinda, Napranum, Doomadgee, Aurukun,
Palm Island, Lockhart River, Mornington Island, Kowanyama, Hope Vale, Northern Peninsula Area, Wujal Wujal and Torres Strait islands — have so far benefited from the National Partnership Agreement on Remote Indigenous Housing, a joint Queensland and Australian government initiative.
Allen Cuneen from the Program Office says while better housing now is important, so is the communities’ capacity for future development, which is being enhanced by surveying and town planning.
“More importantly, surveys over individual housing lots will enable houses to be bought or sold, bringing home ownership under 99-year leases in Indigenous local government areas that much closer to reality,”
says Allen.
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