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MINISTER FOR HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION NO. 309

Housing Trust Properties - Narrabundah

MR. HUMPHRIES - asked the Minister for Housing and Community Services

(1) Have any Housing Trust dwellings in Narrabundah become available for new tenants over the past six months; if so, how many and in what streets.

(2) How many of these dwellings are now occupied by tenants who are socioeconomically disadvantaged, ie recipients of welfare payments.

(3) What guidelines for obtaining Housing Trust accommodation in Narrabundah applied for these new tenants.

MR. CONNOLLY - The answer to the Members question is as follows:

(1) Thirty-eight dwellings became available for new tenants in

Narrabundah over the past six months.

It is not the practice of the ACT Housing Trust to make details of the location of these dwellings, by street name, publicly available.

(2) Thirty-one of the applicants are recipients of welfare payments. The remainder are low income earners and satisfied the Housing Trusts income criteria at the time of allocation.

(3) Allocations were made from the priority waiting list and the normal list because of an expressed preference for housing in the Narrabundah area.

All applicants met the standard eligibility criteria for public rental housing that apply for all suburbs in Canberra. The standard eligibility criteria include an income and assets test, an age criterion (minimum age of 16 years), a residency criterion whereby applicants must have lived or worked in the ACT, must be permanent residents of Australia, and must not own residential property in Australia.

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