With this in mind, WICEEDO have positioned them-selves to provide community housing that will save almost 30% of the cost of building both residential and commercial buildings in remote Indigenous communities, whilst reducing the time frame for construction by 50%. WICEEDO Directors have recently visited our joint venture partners and their associates who are experts in the construction industry, with a view of supplying pre fabricated housing systems to Indigenous Australian communities in Australia.

The WICEEDO housing model endeavours to provide Indigenous construction teams, Indigenous communities and Government, with the capacity and ability to provide quality, affordable, sustainable housing systems to Indigenous communities across Australia in a more time efficient and cost effective manner.

Australian Indigenous communities are suffering an acute accommodation shortage. We need quality and affordable solutions, especially in remote and rural areas. Skilled labour is also a real problem – leading to inflated building mark ups.

Building operational homes and communities, NOT just housing!!

Although based in NSW, WICEEDO are fully aware of the barriers of providing affordable and sustainable housing in remote communities. The greater cost for labour, materials and longer timeframes for completing construction has lead to a great void in the delivery of housing in remote communities. Associated with this are the myriad of social and health issues attributed to overcrowding.

The void of affordable housing is also true for the general population of Australia, the shortage of affordable land, higher cost of building and renting with higher interest rates makes it very difficult for the average Australian to enter the housing market.

In response to these pressures, WICEEDO have developed a housing system model which incorporates the following elements:

• Embodying the principle of collective delivery and ‘sweat equity’
  – tenant appreciation, enhanced ownership and respect of houses
• Local community employment opportunities
• Local community education & training
• Significant savings for commonwealth
  and state governments Indigenous housing budgets
• Dramatic reduction in National Indigenous housing targets