Indigenous Australians and Home Ownership

Abstract

The Indigenous Home Ownership Issues Paper contains some useful discussion of the current housing circumstances of Indigenous Australians, including the factors that contribute to home ownership being lower among Indigenous Australians compared to others. The brief discussion of those factors under six headings, covering demographics, income, education, labour force participation, financial literacy and geographic location, on pages 6 and 7 of the paper, gives some indication of the connections involved between housing tenure and a range of other social and economic phenomena. I was, however, a little concerned by some of the statistics quoted and the use made of them.