HHIP Housing Sanitation Program - Barkly Region

⁠⁠⁠In October 2022, the Australian Government announced $100 million will be allocated to homelands across the Northern Territory over a two year period from 2022-23 for urgent upgrades to homelands housing and essential infrastructure. This would include improvements to water, power and community facilities as well as housing upgrades.

The Homelands Housing and Infrastructure Program (HHIP), managed through the Department of Territory Families, Housing and Communities (TFHC), is an initiative of the Northern Territory Government (NTG). The program will focus on addressing critical issues with housing and infrastructure on Northern Territory homelands. The HHIP will utilise the $100M investment from the Australian Government to improve housing and infrastructure conditions on homelands. Any surplus funding will be allocated to complete identified priority projects on NT homelands.

Under the HHIP, three (3) Northern Territory wide projects will be established focusing on identified issues with power, water and sanitation infrastructure in NTG funded homelands.

The Housing Sanitation Program is one of these projects and will supplement works provided through the current homelands program.

Homelands and outstations are interchangeable terms used in different parts of the Northern Territory to describe places where small populations of Aboriginal people live in remote areas, on lands to which they have traditional ownership or historical association.

The majority of homelands are located on community-owned and controlled land, such as Aboriginal Land Trust areas (returned to traditional ownership under the Aboriginal Land Rights (NT) Act 1976), or other statutory tenures including Community Living Areas.

Generally, housing in homelands is communally owned and is not subject to Northern Territory Government (NTG) leasing or part of the NT’s remote public housing system.

TFHC provides a range of grants to assist service providers in the delivery of Municipal and Essential Services (MES) and the maintenance and improvement of currently occupied homes across homelands of the Northern Territory.

Through the homelands program, funding is provided to contribute to the housing and infrastructure maintenance and upgrades across homelands in the region.

Who can apply

Funding is available to organisations only.

To be eligible for funding an organisation must

Types of organisations that are eligible for funding include

Who can't apply

Types of organisations that are not eligible for funding include

Available funding

$785,000.00 has been allocated (2023-2024) across Homelands in the Barkly region.

Before you apply

All information regarding this grant (including the Guidelines and Response Schedule) are attached. For further information please submit an enquiry to HHIP.HousingInfrastructureProgram@nt.gov.au.