Ngarranggarni Ltd (trading as Dreamtime Housing) is a newly established company limited by guarantee to provide social and affordable housing for Aboriginal people. It was established in 2021.
Dreamtime Housing is a member of the Murdi Paaki Regional Housing and Business Consortium that has been established to provide integrated, competent, fully resourced and culturally safe social housing management and tenant support services to low-income Aboriginal residents living in the Murdi Paaki Region.
Dreamtime Housing will collaborate with all consortium members, and the Murdi Paaki Regional Assembly through Murdi Paaki Services Ltd to deliver effective housing services across the Murdi Paaki Region.
Our directors come from the Murdi Paaki Region and bring cultural community knowledge to inform the governance of the Corporation.
The properties we manage will include properties such as those transferred to us from the NSW Government through the Aboriginal Housing Office and through our partnership with the Murdi Paaki Regional Housing Corporation. Dreamtime Housing will also seek other property management contracts through partnership agreements.
Our systems will allow us to work with a wide range of partners and stakeholders including:
Living our vision, purpose and values
Our vision
Dreamtime Housing aims to create and preserve a pathway for Aboriginal people to have equitable access to culturally safe, affordable homes. We will utilise local decision making to shape culturally informed services which will maintain Aboriginal peoples’ personal and cultural wellbeing.
Our purpose
Dreamtime Housing will walk and talk with our people, make connections, understand their needs for access to affordable, sustainable and culturally safe housing, and provide a housing management service which satisfies their aspirations.
Our values
Dreamtime Housing will ensure our values shape and guide our practice:
We value everyone and treat everyone with dignity and professionalism in a culturally sensitive way
We strive to honour commitments that we have made. We are responsible for our words, our actions and results
We ensure that we are honest and open in our interactions and decision making
We act with uncompromising honesty and integrity in everything we do
We commit to collaborating with tenants on an indvidual basis, instilling hope
We commit to continuous learning and evolving
We use research and data to guide our service development and delivery
Dreamtime Housing will ensure that R.E.S.P.E.C.T is embedded into values by being: