Home ownership for indigenous Australians is rising only slowly. The Australian Bureau of Statistics reports an increase of 2.5 per cent every five years.
While the rest of the population has an ownership rate of 71 per cent, between 1996 and 2006 indigenous home ownership grew from 31.6 per cent to 35.9 per cent.
Victoria had the second highest rate of indigenous home ownership, at 42.3 per cent, with Tasmania the highest at 54.1 per cen
Most indigenous people are renting homes, but that level dropped marginally from 65.4 per cent in 1996 to 61.9 per cent in 2006.
The Northern Territory had the lowest level of home ownership among its indigenous population, at just 20 per cent, which the bureau blamed on remoteness and a lack of secure land tenure.
The Federal Government recently pledged to spend $5 billion on indigenous housing in remote areas of the Northern Territory and throughout Australia.
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