About the Aboriginal Home Ownership Hub
Our Story
The Aboriginal Home Ownership Hub was created to help Victorian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders learn about the process of home ownership, as well as connect community to the professional, culturally safe, supports that are already available.
The Hub
The Aboriginal Home Ownership Hub was developed to;
- Help remove barriers to entry into home ownership
- Learn new home ownership and maintenance
- Learn about personal finance management and find financial support available
- Serve as a place for homebuyers and service providers alike to get involved with professional supports, community events and advocacy opportunities
Mana-na woorn-tyeen maar-takoort
Mana-na woorn-tyeen maar-takoort translates to 'Every Aboriginal Person has a Home' in the Gunditjmara dialects, and is the title of the The Victorian Aboriginal Housing and Homelessness Framework.
This framework expresses that to move beyond crisis management of Aboriginal housing and to achieve housing equity we will require a fresh approach which addresses each of the drivers of housing outcomes.
This approach includes a focus on addressing home ownership inequality.
The pathway to home ownership
Mana-na worn-tyeen maar-takoort, the Victorian Aboriginal Housing and Homelessness Framework, found that only 43% of Victorian Aboriginal households own or are purchasing their own home compared to over 68% of non-Aboriginal Victorians households. For us to keep our families housed and communities independent, we must address the gap in Aboriginal home ownership. Lower rates of home ownership undermine housing security and the capacity to build intergenerational wealth, reinforcing the economic exclusion Aboriginal Victorians have experienced since colonial settlement.
A place to learn
At the 2022 Aboriginal Housing and Homelessness Summit, the establishment of an Aboriginal Home Ownership Hub was raised as a key recommendation for addressing home ownership inequality. To learn more about the summit and its findings, view the Summit Report here.
The advice supplied throughout this website is general in nature, the information on this website is not a substitute for professional financial services. The hub has been developed in collaboration with the Victorian Aboriginal Housing and Homelessness Forum (VAHHF), and is managed by Aboriginal Housing Victoria.
About the artwork
'Home Ownership'
by Matthew Atkinson, 2023
"This piece was designed to tell the story of Aboriginal Housing Victoria helping Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people moving from renting to homeownership. The icons seen throughout the piece show areas that AHV are located but also areas of Victoria that have large communities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The dot work represents the individual Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people that AHV house and the people they aim to help move into homeownership. The line work represent the lands and waters that surround our state of Victoria."
Matthew was commissioned by Little Rocket, a First Nations owned and operated full-service marketing and creative agency. To find out more about Little Rocket, click the link below.
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