Community Land Trusts and Indigenous Housing in Australia—Exploring Difference-Based Policy and Appropriate Housing

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ID11484153
AuthorsLouise Crabtree‐haye (0000-0001-8167-3976, Western Sydney University, corresponding author), Louise Crabtree
Year2014
Volume29
Issue6
Pages743-759
Publication date2014-08-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHousing Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0267-3037 • E-ISSN: 1466-1810
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02673037.2014.898248
OpenAlexW2026977408
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited10

Previous work has highlighted the primacy of non-economic rights in Indigenous housing objectives. This paper builds on that work and Sanders' other work demonstrating the limited relevance of ‘mainstream’ home ownership for many Indigenous communities, exploring whether models based on community land trust (CLT) principles might be appropriate for articulating Indigenous housing aspirations. The paper describes current Indigenous housing scenarios in urban, regional and remote New South Wales and Queensland, and findings regarding the resonance of CLTs with Indigenous housing objectives. While dominant policy and public discourses promote Indigenous home ownership as an economic development strategy, or as requiring the alienation of Indigenous lands, the research found neither to be primary sector imperatives. The paper draws on difference-based arguments regarding Indigenous affairs arguing that a focus on diversity emerging from informed Indigenous choice finds a role for policy supporting diverse Indigenous housing aspirations

Alienation · Diversity (politics · Economic growth · Economics · Indigenous · Mainstream · Political science · Sociology · Work (physics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Public Administration · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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