Indigenous housing organisation—organisation identifier

Any Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander organisation which owns or is responsible for managing community housing.

Managing includes at least one of the following functions: tenancy arrangements, rent collection or housing maintenance. This includes community organisations that have a range of functions as well as Resource agencies and Land councils, provided that they own or manage Indigenous community housing.

For the Community Housing Infrastructure Needs Survey (CHINS) collection, housing organisations in receivership or liquidation at the time of enumeration were excluded.

For the purposes of presenting CHINS results, Indigenous housing organisations were classified as follows:

• Urban housing organisation: refers to an organisation managing housing only outside of discrete Indigenous communities; and
• Discrete community housing organisation: refers to an organisation managing housing in one or more discrete Indigenous communities, with or without housing in other locations.

Indigenous housing organisation—organisation identifier, code NNNNN Housing assistance, Retired 10/02/2006