The Victorian State Government will release its 2025-26 Budget next week.
Mana-na woorn-tyeen maar-takoort
Every Aboriginal Person Has a Home
The Victorian Aboriginal Housing and Homelessness Framework
WHO WE ARE
Aboriginal Housing and Homelessness Forum
The Aboriginal Housing and Homelessness Forum (AHHF) is a consortium of 38 member groups from across Victoria. We consist of Aboriginal community-controlled Organisations (ACCOs), Traditional Owner groups (TOs) and Aboriginal Trusts with an interest in housing and homelessness.
Building on the objectives of Mana-na Woorn-Tyeen Maar-Takoort, the AHHF focuses on six key evolving areas:
Homelessness
Private rental
Social housing
Rent to buy
Home ownership
Capacity building
Victorian Aboriginal Housing and Homelessness Forum Budget Priorities
Mana-na woorn-tyeen maar-takoort
Mana-na woorn-tyeen maar-takoort, which translates to ‘Every Aboriginal Person has a Home’ in the Gunditjmara dialects, is a framework that lays the foundation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander housing and homelessness reform in Victoria.
RESOURCES
Our publications
Mana-na woorn-tyeen maar-takoort
Mana-na woorn-tyeen maar-takoort lays the foundation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander housing and homelessness reform in Victoria. The Framework was developed to reflect the objectives and priorities of the Victorian Aboriginal community and respond to community needs across the housing and homelessness systems.
Read our Framework
The Blueprint
The Blueprint for an Aboriginal Homelessness System in Victoria provides a roadmap for the development of a homelessness service system that is self-determined, community led, culturally safe, and responsive to the needs of Aboriginal Victorians experiencing or at risk of experiencing homelessness. It identifies the key priorities enablers as well as a practical plan on how to implement the new system.
Read the Blueprint
Our Summit Report
In November 2022, the second Aboriginal Housing and Homelessness Summit was held to advance the goals of Mana-na woorn-tyeen maar-takoort. The 2022 Aboriginal Housing and Homelessness Summit Report, brings together the ideas, focus areas and priorities of the Victorian Aboriginal community on how to increase quality safe and secure housing outcomes Aboriginal people in our state.
Read Our Summit ReportPlatform
Mana-na woorn-tyeen maar-takoort contains five objectives. These objectives form the basis of our policy platform.
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Position papers
As part of our ongoing advocacy, the AHHF have taken positions on several issues relating to housing and homelessness. These are articulated through position papers endorsed by the AHHF membership.
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Artwork by Bayley Mifsud
This artwork was created in collaboration between Merindah-Gunya and Aboriginal Housing Victoria.
The 6 icons all symbolise the different journeys throughout the AHV support experience. The first icon, Homeless, shows people without a meeting place (home). The next icon, Crisis Housing, shows people surrounding one home, however the people are not in the icon, they are surrounding. The next icon, Social housing, which has multiple meeting places with people surrounding. The next icon, Private Rental, includes one meeting home surrounded by people. The next icon, Rent to Buy, shows two meeting places, one smaller being the home being rented then the larger being the home purchased.The final icon, Home Ownership, shows the complete home, with multiple meeting places inside symbolizing the journey of all of the other symbols put together.
Bayley Mifsud is a proud member of the Peek and Kirrae Whurrong people of the Maar nation from South West Victoria (Warrnambool). Her Aboriginal name is Merindah-Gunya meaning “Beautiful Spirit” in Peek Whurrong language, which was gifted to her through ceremony by her parents and Elders.
Bayley has a passion for community development, diversity and self-determination as well as continuing the gift of storytelling through her artwork . Bayley now lives on Wurundjeri Country in Naarm (Melbourne) and has lived a large portion of her life here. Her great granny Mary Clarke was a Bunurong woman. Bayley was taught Aboriginal art at a very young age, by her Elders at the Brambuk Cultural Centre in the Grampians in Victoria. Learn more about her artistry here.
Media Releases
Our latest Media Releases
Over $1 Million in Grants Delivered to Support Community-Led Housing Initiatives
The Aboriginal Housing and Homelessness Forum (AHHF) is proud to announce the successful disbursement of $1,076,000 in funding to support Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations (ACCOs) and Traditional Owner Groups (TOs) through two targeted grant programs designed to strengthen the Aboriginal Housing Sector by supporting Aboriginal-led community housing initiatives.
Read MoreVictorian State Budget 2025-26: Housing the missing piece to a self-determined future.
The AHHF welcomes measures that protect critical homelessness services in the 2025-26 State Budget, and remains committed to working with Government to secure meaningful investment in long-term housing outcomes for Aboriginal Victorians.
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