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Noongar Mia Bidi

Noongar Mia Bidi provides culturally secure community housing and tenancy support for Aboriginal individuals and families, strengthening long-term housing stability and connection to home.

Noongar Mia Mia helps First Nations people living on Noongar country by providing a range of public and social housing options for eligible applicants. Our core focus is housing provision, property management and tenancy support, setting the right foundations for eventual home ownership.
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By forging solid pathways to a secure housing future, we support our tenants on their journey to economic prosperity. Securing housing for First Nations people and their families, we set the right socio-economic foundations to help create a healthier and empowered community.

As the first Aboriginal Controlled Community Organisation registered as a Tier 3 housing provider on Noongar land, we are able to offer a unique cultural approach to housing provision, tenancy support and property management.

Mainstream services often fall flat because of a lack of cultural awareness, with many non-First Nations organisations simply not equipped with our deep understanding of culture.

A non-cultural approach tends to operate from a deficits-based (what's wrong) approach. For the tenants, this can be seen as condescending.

Because of a painful history of interventions purporting to 'protect' us, First Nations people often struggle to trust mainstream social services providers. In practice, most services in the past – no matter how well-meaning – have been tone-deaf or even harmful.

Instead, at Noongar Mia Mia, we look towards our community for what's strong, not what's wrong.

The results speak for themselves: Since 2000, we have grown steadily and today own or manage a combined housing stock of over 90 homes, sleeping approximately 400 people every night.

We're now at the stage where we are planning to build specialised accommodation and support tenants seeking to buy their own home.

Key to the success of Noongar Mia is our tenancy support (Boola Moort) and property management programs, helping tenants to meet tenancy obligations and stay housed.

Noongar Housing First Principles contains materials such as images, stories and text in language that embody the cultural heritage, traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expression of the Noongar people and Nations of Australia. Noongar people and communities have the right to maintain, control, protect and develop their cultural heritage in accordance with Article 31 of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Any use, reproduction or dealing with these materials for purposes not authorised by the Traditional Custodians is a serious breach of the Noongar customary laws and may also breach the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth).

For enquiries about permitted reproductions of these materials, contact the Managing Director or call (08) 9271 8711