@article{grealy_sustaining_2022, title = {Sustaining housing through planned maintenance in remote {Central} {Australia}}, volume = {0}, issn = {0267-3037}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2022.2084045}, doi = {10.1080/02673037.2022.2084045}, abstract = {Once housing is constructed, its sustainability depends on the efficacy of property maintenance. In remote Indigenous communities in Australia, responsive or reactive approaches to property maintenance dominate over planned and preventive attention, leaving housing in various states of disrepair. By documenting an approach that is succeeding in this wider context, this article shows the commonplace situation of poorly maintained social housing is entirely interruptible. It does so by examining an alternative and exceptional approach taken on the remote Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in South Australia, where housing benefits from a planned maintenance program combined with an environmental health program. Through detailed empirical analysis of program datasets, interviews, and ethnographic fieldwork, this article describes the expert, systematic, and attentive work required to sustain functional housing in the wider context of undersupply, crowding, and challenging environmental conditions. We argue for the necessity of planned maintenance approaches as an essential component of sustainable housing, both to extend the life of housing assets and to ensure householder health and wellbeing.}, number = {0}, urldate = {2023-05-09}, journal = {Housing Studies}, author = {Grealy, Liam and Lea, Tess and Moskos, Megan and Benedict, Richard and Habibis, Daphne and King, Stephanie}, month = jun, year = {2022}, note = {Publisher: Routledge \_eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2022.2084045}, keywords = {Architecture, Indigenous housing policy, Maintenance, Property, environmental health, healthy housing, housing quality, sustainability}, pages = {1--23}, } @article{grealy_governing_2023, title = {Governing disassembly in {Indigenous} housing}, volume = {38}, issn = {0267-3037}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2021.1882662}, doi = {10.1080/02673037.2021.1882662}, abstract = {Without proper attention, houses disassemble. In public housing, property management regimes are charged with performing the repairs and maintenance necessary to combat this entropic tendency. This article argues that such governance regimes can accelerate housing’s disassembly, through rules that restrict housing interventions, bureaucratic technologies that misrecognize housing failure, and processes that defer and delay necessary fixwork. It analyzes Indigenous housing in the Northern Territory of Australia, in terms of three specific legal-bureaucratic instruments and the temporalizations they constitute: the lease and promise; the tender and repetition; the condition report and waiting. The article considers the effects of these pairings in Alice Springs town camps and the challenge of thinking beyond bureaucratic housing regimes.}, number = {2}, urldate = {2023-05-09}, journal = {Housing Studies}, author = {Grealy, Liam}, month = feb, year = {2023}, note = {Publisher: Routledge \_eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2021.1882662}, keywords = {Architecture, Property}, pages = {327--346}, } @article{howey_drinking_2021, title = {Drinking water security: the neglected dimension of {Australian} water reform}, volume = {25}, issn = {1324-1583}, shorttitle = {Drinking water security}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/13241583.2021.1917098}, doi = {10.1080/13241583.2021.1917098}, abstract = {Drinking water security has been a neglected issue in Australian water reform. This article considers Australia’s chief water policy of the past two decades, the National Water Initiative, and its aim to provide healthy, safe, and reliable water supplies. Taking the Northern Territory as a case study, we describe how despite significant policy and research attention, the NWI has failed to ensure drinking water security in Indigenous communities in the NT, where water supply remains largely unregulated. The article describes shortcomings of legislated drinking water protections, the recent history of Commonwealth water policy, and areas where national reforms have not been satisfactorily undertaken in the NT. We aim to highlight key regulatory areas that require greater attention in NT water research and, more specifically, in the Productivity Commission’s ongoing inquiry process.}, number = {2}, urldate = {2023-05-09}, journal = {Australasian Journal of Water Resources}, author = {Howey, Kirsty and Grealy, Liam}, month = jul, year = {2021}, note = {Publisher: Taylor \& Francis \_eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/13241583.2021.1917098}, keywords = {Urban planning}, pages = {111--120}, }