Empowering partnerships: AHO and Head Start Homes Partner to Achieve Aboriginal Homeownership
Head Start Homes (HSH) is proud to have the Aboriginal Housing Office (AHO) as a Platinum Partner which provides vital grant funding in supporting our First Nations clients to purchase their own homes.
Since November 2018, the AHO has supported more than 185 individuals and families into home ownership through the Aboriginal Home Buyer Saver, which offers financial support for Aboriginal people towards home ownership.
Head Start Homes works directly with the AHO to provide our First Nation clients with access to these grants.
Deslin Foster, Director Policy and Evidence at the Aboriginal Housing Office
Kate Fenton,
Homeownership Success at Head Start Homes
Deslin Foster, Director Policy and Evidence, AHO, said the Aboriginal Home Buyer Saver project, in collaboration with HSH and Aboriginal people, enables participants to overcome the barriers to achieve home ownership.
“The project consists of three grants providing a one-off financial boost to participants and contributes to Closing the Gap on Indigenous economic prosperity,” she said.
HSH Home Ownership Success team member Kate Fenton said seeing the lives of Aboriginal people transformed as a result of the collaboration between AHO and HSH was incredibly rewarding.
“It is so great working alongside First Nations people and families and seeing the impact that homeownership has on their lives,” she said.
“Working in collaboration with AHO has been wonderful and we look forward to our partnership growing, and working together alongside many more First Nations people and families to achieve their homeownership dreams.”
Famey Williams, Chief Executive, at the Aboriginal Housing Office
Famey Williams, AHO Chief Executive, said the AHO is proud to have partnered with HSH to address the disparity in home ownership in NSW between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal families.
“The AHO is very proud to build on this success in partnering Head Start Homes with additional funding to support Aboriginal home ownership.”
“Together we have already seen what the partnership can deliver through the positive exit from social housing into home ownership on the mid-North Coast by Charlene and her family,” she said.
To learn more about Charlene’s experience with the AHO you can watch this video.
Note for this video Charlene chose to use her real name (“Chontell”). HSH encourages our clients to choose and use an alias name to protect their identity.
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