A key feature of housing careers in Australia has traditionally been the strong correlation between life stage and dwelling type. The non-Indigenous expectation in general terms has been one of a progression from rental to purchase associated with increasing household income over the life course. This pattern of housing careers is not played out in Indigenous society, as Indigenous housing careers are dominated by rental, not ownership. The course then, of Indigenous housing careers in social housing tenancy tends to be a function of the relationship between Indigenous people as tenants and the social housing agency. At first glance, there is a limited basis for comparison between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous experience of housing and housing careers because the drivers of these two situations are very different. For example, kinship structure and kin-oriented relationships are important in Indigenous housing in a way that is not mirrored in the non-Indigenous housing experience. This point notwithstanding, an analysis of Indigenous housing experience can be used not only to inform policy development but also to develop existing paradigms of housing experience. This report outlines a project to investigate the housing careers of Indigenous people in Western Australia, the state with the highest proportion nationally of Indigenous people renting from the state housing authority. While the data for this project was gathered in the course of ethnographic interviews, the approach in data analysis was sociological. The purpose was to produce a systematic sociological analysis of the process of Indigenous housing careers and to derive from the participants’ representation of this experience certain objective qualities of Indigenous housing careers.