As a significant recognition of self-determination, the Victorian Government have funded Aboriginal Housing Victoria to lead the development of Mana–na woorn-tyeen maar–takoort which translates to ‘Every Aboriginal Person has a Home‘ in the Gunditjmara dialects. The Framework provides a 20-year roadmap for housing and homelessness reform in Victoria. Through offering a new perspective moving beyond crisis management of Aboriginal housing and instead addressing each of the drivers of housing outcomes, the Framework aims to achieve quality housing outcomes for all Aboriginal Victorians in a generation. While Government partners participated in the development process by providing guidance and direction, in recognising the power of a community led response, the Framework has been developed by the Aboriginal community for the Aboriginal community. It is self-determination in action. 

 A key objective of Mana-na woorn-tyeen maar-takoort is the establishment of an Aboriginal focussed homelessness service system. In order to advance this objective, the Blueprint for an Aboriginal-specific homelessness system in Victoria (‘Blueprint’) was developed. The Blueprint was realised through a mixed method approach, including a cross-jurisdictional scan which identified Aboriginal-specific approaches to homelessness across jurisdictions, one-on one consultations with stakeholders across the homelessness sector and people with lived experience, co-design workshops with stakeholders across the service system. It sets out the service arrangements and system management enablers that will form the basis of the Aboriginal-specific homelessness system. 

The purpose of the Aboriginal community-housing sector’s Vision is to outline the role of Aboriginal community housing organisations in delivering appropriate accommodation outcomes for Victoria’s Aboriginal people over the next 20 years.

It is intended to guide the transformation of the Aboriginal community housing sector from being loosely organised, under-resourced and straining to cope with a burgeoning Aboriginal homelessness and housing crisis into a platform that advances Aboriginal self-determination and ensures every Aboriginal Victorian has a home that supports their social, economic and cultural wellbeing.