Journal article
‘They took the land, now we’re fighting for a house’: Aboriginal perspectives about urban housing disadvantage
MJ Andersen, AB Williamson, P Fernando, S Eades, S Redman
Housing Studies | ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD | Published : 2018
Abstract
Aboriginal Australians experience substantial housing disadvantage on a range of measures, yet relatively little is known about how urban Aboriginal people perceive their housing circumstances. While most Aboriginal people live in urban or suburban areas, research and policy attention has tended to focus on remote housing issues. This paper draws on focus groups conducted with Aboriginal people at an Aboriginal Medical Service in Western Sydney (n = 38) about their housing experiences and beliefs about why many Aboriginal people experience the housing disadvantage they described. Participants described a landscape in which their housing experiences were materially affected by their Aborigina..
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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
MJA is funded by a National Health and Medical Research Council Scholarship [grant number 630748] and an Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute postgraduate top-up scholarship [grant number RG142222]. SEARCH is funded by grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council [grant number 358457], [grant number 512685], [grant number 1023998], [grant number 1035378], [grant number 510391]; The NSW Ministry of Health, Australian Primary Care Research Institute, beyondblue and the Rio Tinto Aboriginal Fund.