June 15th, 2020
Warm Houses in Cold Climates Healthabitat loves seeing simple and effective solutions to improving people’s health. HH says bravo to the Clean Warm House project in Peru which uses simple…
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June 8th, 2020
Housing for health in NSW. Reflections from ‘the paddock’ Dr Liam Grealy and Owen Kelly on a recent HfH project
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June 1st, 2020
A place to wash your hands… Having a place to wash your hands with soap is vital to help reduce the spread of infectious disease such as COVID-19 ‘Soap…
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May 25th, 2020
What does house function have to do with COVID-19? HH read this excellent article on the Conversation and this one from Croakey which advocates for improved housing to reduce the…
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May 11th, 2020
Bathroom sinks – crucial house function in a COVID-19 world. The WHO identified handwashing early in the COVID-19 pandemic as crucial to helping stop the spread of the Coronavirus infection. …
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February 26th, 2020
Welcome to Healthabitat’s new website! This new website combines both Healthabitat and Healthabitat O/S into one place. As of the end of 2019, we are one company known as Healthabitat (HH). All the existing content has been migrated across and is easier to find.
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March 7th, 2019
The Community Plumbing Challenge (CPC) commits to combining multi-discipline teams, with a cross-section of expertise. Its aim has been to provide a skills pathway and career options for Plumbing apprentices…
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March 5th, 2019
Work is nearing completion on the new water supply and storage systems, handwashing, teeth brushing and waste treatment systems for the 600 students and teachers of Shree Bhotenamlang Secondary School,…
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March 4th, 2019
This short documentary filmed during the CPC in October 2018 illustrates the challenges faced by local Indigenous residents living without basic healthy living practices and the emotional journey for the…
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March 4th, 2019
The Housing for Health incubator recently invited and heard from David Jacobs, Chief Scientist, National Center for Healthy Housing, United States on the recently launch World Health Organization’s (WHO) Housing and health guidelines….
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November 12th, 2018
Sago Network has been working for a number of years in partnership with local communities throughout Australia’s closest neighbour, Papua New Guinea, to tackle the community development challenge of improving…
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October 26th, 2018
The CPC Navajo Nation week kicked off with a Housing for Health survey-fix of the 10 houses being improved by the Community Plumbing Challenge. As on all Housing for Health…
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