Indigenous community housing DSS 2011-12

Identifying and definitional attributes

• Housing assistance, Superseded 03/07/2014
• Indigenous, Standard 01/05/2013

Indigenous community housing (ICH) for the purpose of this collection includes dwellings:

• managed by Indigenous Community Housing Organisations (ICHO) who received funding both in the current and/or previous financial years
• targeted to Indigenous people.

A principle of the ICHO must be to provide medium- to long-term housing tenure to tenants.

This collection excludes dwellings managed under:

• mainstream community housing (i.e. not managed by an ICHO)
• public rental housing
• state owned and managed Indigenous housing (SOMIH)
• the Crisis Accommodation Program (CAP).

Collection and usage attributes

Commonwealth, state and territory governments provide the data to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare for national collation on an annual basis.

Relational attributes