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NT remote housing program is building prefabricated homes, but some communities don’t want them
The Northern Territory Government is using prefabricated homes to ease overcrowding in remote communities, but some are concerned they take construction jobs and training opportunities from Aboriginal Territorians living in remote areas.
Key points:
- The NT Government says it has completed 37 of the new-style remote homes and more are on the way
- Some residents are happy and the houses can be finished quicker than locally built homes
- Concerns have been raised over the cost of the homes, at around half a million dollars each
Deanne Entata is from one of the first families in Hermannsburg to move into the Government’s new prefabricated remote homes, after spending years living with seven people in a three-bedroom home.
“I’m so excited to stand…
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