Department of Housing and Community Development (NT)

The Department of Housing and Community Development was established by the Northern Territory Government on 12 September, 2016, from the former Department of Housing and the Department of Local Government and Community Services.

The government formed the department to bring together many of the key functions that provide services in affordable and accessible housing, local government and community development across the Northern Territory (NT).

The key areas of the department are:

• public housing
• supported accommodation
• remote Indigenous housing
• seniors housing
• affordable housing
• home ownership
• local government
• interpreting and translating services
• homelands
• remote infrastructure and services.

The department has one minister, one CEO and operates in more than various locations in the NT.