The state government steps up its efforts to promote home ownership for Queensland's indigenous communities and wants the public to share their inputs on ways to push the program into a reality.

To get a picture on Queenslanders' pulse on the issue, the Queensland government has issued a discussion paper and called on concerned parties to send in their suggestions, which could help authorities formulate definitive ways that would enable the indigenous communities to acquire affordable housing.

At present, Queensland authorities said that the prohibitive construction costs in far-flung communities influence high valuations on any planned indigenous housing and the state government is looking at ways to alter the valuation model to possibly push down prevailing prices.

The goal, according to State Housing Minister Karen Struthers, is to ultimately peg property prices in the local market to that of the indigenous community housing costs.

Struthers said that his can be done by pitting the prevailing prices of the most proximate real estate value prices against to that of indigenous housing units, which she said should effectively water down the upward spiral effect of simply calculating replacement value for property projects.

The Queensland government estimates that only about 30 percent of indigenous people own their dwelling places as compared to the estimated 60 percent in the mainstream real estate market.

The state government is gunning to adjust the indigenous communities' housing situation soon as Struthers argued that even if people would be able to land good-paying jobs in remote locations, they would still end up paying up to 25 percent of their incomes into house rentals.

Struthers underscored the fact that "indigenous people have the same rights and should have the same opportunities as anybody else."