Indigenous housing funding is under threat as figures from the Department of Housing showed more than 400 Indigenous people are on the waitlist for social housing on Palm Island.
Overcrowding is still a major issue across Queensland’s Indigenous communities with an estimated average of five people living in each room of a standard three-bedroom house.
Ida Richardson knows the pain of living without a home after being forced to move from place to place almost every month with her two young children.
After 14 years on the waitlist for public housing on Palm Island in North Queensland, Ms Richardson was given keys to her new home just before Christmas.