Aboriginal Housing Company Website

WELCOME TO THE OFFICIAL REDFERN ABORIGINAL HOUSING COMPANY WEBSITE

The Aboriginal Housing Company Limited (AHC) is a multi award winning Aboriginal governed organisation, located in the heart of Redfern.

The AHC is an independent non-profit charity and the first community housing provider in Australia. Incorporated in 1973 the Company formed in direct response to the widespread discrimination Aborigines experienced in the private rental market. The Company also helped kick start the grassroots Indigenous civil rights movement, in conjunction with other organisations like the Aboriginal Medical, Legal and Children's Services.

The AHC is most famous for owning and managing the residential area in Redfern bound by Eveleigh Street, Vine Street, Louis Street and Caroline Street, known colloquially as "the Block". The purpose of this website is to provide truthful and accurate information and demystifying "the Block" and the Aboriginal people who call it their home. Our aim is to make this website the definitive source of information on this topic, and finally put to rest much of the confusion and untruths that often clouds this area.

Maximum Diplomacy - The Aboriginal Struggle for The Block
By Esosa Edmonds - Representative of the United Nations Association

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AHC OBJECTIVES:

The AHC is committed to improving the living standards, health and self-esteem of Aboriginal people by:

Operating at best practice and providing high quality and culturally appropriate affordable housing.

Restoring and promoting independence by building on cultural values and purging the crippling welfare mentality.

Providing a stepping-stone for Aboriginal people into affordable home ownership.

Forming vertical and horizontal partnerships and alliances with other service providers to develop holistic strategies for our community.

Delivering a showcase redevelopment based on world's best practice planning, design and construction, and by setting new benchmarks in social, economic and environmental sustainability for community housing.

AHC AFFILIATIONS:

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50651

As of the 1st August 2000

ACN: 001 154 481 ABN: 28 001 154 481

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AHC OBJECTIVES:

The AHC is committed to improving the living standards, health and self-esteem of Aboriginal people by:
	Operating at best practice and providing high quality and culturally appropriate affordable housing.
	Restoring and promoting independence by building on cultural values and purging the crippling welfare mentality.
	Providing a stepping-stone for Aboriginal people into affordable home ownership.
	Forming vertical and horizontal partnerships and alliances with other service providers to develop holistic strategies for our community.
	Delivering a showcase redevelopment based on world's best practice planning, design and construction, and by setting new benchmarks in social, economic and environmental sustainability for community housing.