TY  - JOUR
TI  - Sustaining housing through planned maintenance in remote Central Australia
AU  - Grealy, Liam
AU  - Lea, Tess
AU  - Moskos, Megan
AU  - Benedict, Richard
AU  - Habibis, Daphne
AU  - King, Stephanie
T2  - Housing Studies
AB  - 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.
DA  - 2022/06/14/
PY  - 2022
DO  - 10.1080/02673037.2022.2084045
DP  - Taylor and Francis+NEJM
VL  - 0
IS  - 0
SP  - 1
EP  - 23
SN  - 0267-3037
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2022.2084045
Y2  - 2023/05/09/01:13:31
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Indigenous housing policy
KW  - Maintenance
KW  - Property
KW  - environmental health
KW  - healthy housing
KW  - housing quality
KW  - sustainability
ER  - 

TY  - JOUR
TI  - Governing disassembly in Indigenous housing
AU  - Grealy, Liam
T2  - Housing Studies
AB  - 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.
DA  - 2023/02/07/
PY  - 2023
DO  - 10.1080/02673037.2021.1882662
DP  - Taylor and Francis+NEJM
VL  - 38
IS  - 2
SP  - 327
EP  - 346
SN  - 0267-3037
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2021.1882662
Y2  - 2023/05/09/01:15:48
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Property
ER  - 

TY  - JOUR
TI  - Drinking water security: the neglected dimension of Australian water reform
AU  - Howey, Kirsty
AU  - Grealy, Liam
T2  - Australasian Journal of Water Resources
AB  - 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.
DA  - 2021/07/03/
PY  - 2021
DO  - 10.1080/13241583.2021.1917098
DP  - Taylor and Francis+NEJM
VL  - 25
IS  - 2
SP  - 111
EP  - 120
SN  - 1324-1583
ST  - Drinking water security
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/13241583.2021.1917098
Y2  - 2023/05/09/01:28:27
KW  - Urban planning
ER  -