00:00There's no place like home, but Darcy's place, Boralula, has no home for him.
00:10I am worried, you know, because this is where we live and when we go out there we're nothing.
00:16We feel that we want to come back here, but there's in the back of the mind that there's
00:23a house problem back there, you know, all the time.
00:26Darcy moved back to the Gulf community, in part to share his cultural knowledge on country
00:32with his kids.
00:33But in his mum's two bedroom flat, the threat of overcrowding hangs heavy, separating the
00:39family.
00:40That's why my other three kids don't want to come this way because, you know, they don't
00:44know where to stay.
00:45I tried putting in for a house, but yeah, not go.
00:49He's one of many struggling with housing.
00:52More than half of the homes in the Gulf region are overcrowded.
00:57It's just a challenge that is going to take a lot more time, money and people to be able
01:02to come out here and actually facilitate it because we're so far away from everything here.
01:08The government says there are no further builds planned in the community, past the lot of houses
01:14constructed three years ago.
01:16If you wanted to fix it really quickly, I'd bring the army in.
01:21I would.
01:23Here in Borrolula, housing's come a long way in the last decade, but residents say that
01:29progress has been slow and many still live in overcrowded situations.
01:34Some say the overcrowding is so bad, residents have moved to other cities and communities
01:40in order to find safe housing.
01:42The last couple of years, like, that's why not much elder here, like, and a lot of middle-aged
01:51young, they all moved out to other communities and go to Darwin so their kids can have a good
01:56future.
01:57They shouldn't have to move away, you know, there should be more houses of young so people
02:03can stand out in community.
02:05A cry for help from a community cracking.
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