Annual Report 2024-25
The South Australian Aboriginal Housing Strategy 2021 – 2031 aims to improve housing outcomes for all Aboriginal South Australians. The vision is for equitable access to safe, secure and affordable housing for Aboriginal peoples, achieved through shared decision-making and culturally informed services, to maintain Aboriginal peoples personal and cultural wellbeing.
Highlights of achievements during 2024-25 under the Strategy’s 6 strategic pillars (objectives) are outlined below:
| The Aboriginal Housing Strategy 6 strategic pillars |
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| Pillar 1 Housing Sector Reform: putting Aboriginal voices at the centre |
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The Trust continues to work with the Board’s Aboriginal Advisory Committee to support the commitments of the Aboriginal Housing Strategy, providing an Aboriginal led mechanism to guide and inform the Trust on a range of strategic housing challenges and priorities across the South Australian housing
system.
The Trust and the South Australian Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation Network (SAACCON) established a partnership sub-committee that continues to meet bi-monthly. $50 million Commonwealth funding for the Housing Australia Future Fund Facility Acute Housing Measure: Repairs, maintenance and improvements of housing in remote Indigenous communities was received, with an Implementation Plan developed in partnership with SAACCON. The Trust is undertaking community engagement with far remote Aboriginal communities, with work commenced in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara following consultation on local priorities. The Trust is committed to developing Shared Local Decision-Making Partnership Agreements with three interested Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations: Point Pearce Aboriginal Community (PPAC), Far West Community Partnerships (FWCP) and Neporendi Aboriginal Forum Inc. (Neporendi). The Trust has drafted the first Partnership Agreement with PPAC and is continuing the development of the Agreements with FWCP and Neporendi. |
| Pillar 2 Service Reform: changing the way government does business |
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The Trust continued to embed the use of an Aboriginal Interest Statement across all strategic and operational activities. This approach ensures Aboriginal voices are central to decision-making and that housing services are culturally informed, flexible, and responsive to the diverse needs of Aboriginal
communities.
The 2025 Aboriginal Staff Forum: Renew, Restore and Re-energise through Cultural Connections, was held in Port Augusta on Barngarla and Nukunu Country. The Trust completed a review of Aboriginal Cultural Competency Learning needs within the organisation. |
| Pillar 3 Economic Participation: more jobs for Aboriginal peoples and businesses |
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The Aboriginal Economic Participation project, focussed on developing co-designed skills training for the Western Country Far North property maintenance region, has commenced.
This is a first step in growing capacity for local communities and businesses to participate in the public housing property sector and build long-term capability and viability of a SA Aboriginal Housing sector. |
| Pillar 4 Homelessness and Crisis Services: making more safe places to stay where and when you need them |
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Tika Tirka continues to provide culturally safe city accommodation for Aboriginal tertiary students from remote and regional locations. To date, 39 students have resided in the accommodation that is managed by Aboriginal Community Housing Ltd. This also ensures 100% Aboriginal supply chain for site-based
services including support services, cleaning and gardening.
The Lakeview Transitional Accommodation Centre at Port Augusta and Wangka Wilurrara Transitional Accommodation Centre at Ceduna continued to provide critical services supporting Aboriginal cultural mobility throughout regional South Australia. |
| Pillar 5 Housing Supply: better access to housing |
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Building commenced on Purrkanaitya, an innovative project that will deliver 40 one bedroom individual homes in an Aboriginal Elders Independent Living Village.
The partnership to deliver this project includes Kaurna Yerta Aboriginal Corporation, Aboriginal Community Housing Limited, Community Housing Limited, Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation and the Trust. |
| Pillar 6 Home Ownership: pathways for buying a house that is accessible and ethical |
The Trust’s Rent to Buy Program provides 20 properties targeted for Aboriginal households, supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to achieve secure, long-term housing outcomes and a structured pathway to home ownership. |