Australia’s largest registered Aboriginal housing agency, Aboriginal Housing Victoria (AHV) has teamed up with ClarkeHopkinsClarke Architects and Indigenous landscape designer Charles Solomon to transform ageing units on a 1000-square metre site in suburban Dandenong as part of the first moves into a multi-residential apartment development.
Funded as part of the Victoria Government’s $2.7 billion Building Works package and recently fast-tracked through planning, the project creates 10 much-needed one- and two-bedroom homes for diverse tenants and reimagines the connection to culture and Country possible in urban social housing settings.
AHV currently manages more than 1500 rental properties for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in Victoria – mostly larger villas and houses, for which singles, couples and younger people often don’t qualify.
“There’s a severe shortage of one- and two-bedroom units, not
