Remote Home Ownership Program
The Queensland Government is committed to expanding opportunities for home ownership for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in remote, regional and urban areas across Queensland, including those living on Indigenous land.
Home ownership is a more secure form of housing than renting. Increased home ownership can help break intergenerational reliance on social housing, promote wealth creation and economic prosperity, and support self-determination.
Pathways to home ownership
Our Remote Home Ownership team can help you with Pathways to Home Ownership.
You may be able to own a home in your community by either:
- accepting your entitlement to a Land Holding Act (Katter) lease
- applying to the trustee to buy your social housing dwelling under a 99-year home ownership lease.
We are also working with councils in remote communities to unlock other pathways into home ownership and delivering education programs to prospective first homeowners to support sustainable home ownership into the future.
Read more about pathways to owning your home in your community.
Palm Island Rent-to-Buy Home Ownership Scheme
The Palm Island Rent-to-Buy Home Ownership Scheme will allow residents to purchase their social home by entering into a rent-to-buy agreement with the Palm Island Aboriginal Shire Council.
Following completion of the payment plan, a 99-year home ownership lease will be registered, and ownership of the dwelling will be transferred.
Up to 300 socials homes owned by the Palm Island Aboriginal Shire Council will be made available through the scheme for residents to buy in the coming years.