Intervention promised houses not built

None of the houses promised for remote indigenous communities in 2007 as part of the Northern Territory Intervention has been built.

Layers of bureaucracy are strangling the $700-million plan to build hundreds of houses to address the problem of poor and crowded housing, the Australian newspaper reveals.

Indigenous leader and former Labor national party president Warren Mundine agreed not one house had been built under the intervention's housing crisis plan.

The revelation comes a day after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd declared that indigenous disadvantage was worse than previously thought.

Mr Mundine, who sits on the Prime Minister's commission on indigenous housing, said the delays were "disgraceful and embarrassing".

He said the federal government was putting "Speed humps in the way of development" in the form of unnecessary, multi-layered bureaucracy.