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MINISTER FOR HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION
QUESTION NO 652
Housing Trust Properties - Sale to Tenants
MR CORNWELL: Asked the Minister for Housing and Community Services In relation to the ACT Housing Trusts submission to the Industry Commission Inquiry into Public Housing and the statement (p13) (Attachment One) that in relation to Sale to Tenant:
"The value to the Trust of these sale programs is that they provide an avenue to turn over stock, especially stock in poor condition, badly located or of poor or of inappropriate design"
(1) Does this statement infer that good quality stock will not be sold to
tenants and, if not, what does the statement mean.
(2) Does this statement support the increasing qualifications against
tenants purchasing their government house and if not, why not.
(3) Why would tenants purchase stock in poor condition and how
would they do so, given the inference that as tenants they probably
caused the deterioration.
(4) Has legal advice been sought in respect of the Trusts right as
enunciated by this statement, to sell such properties to tenants.
(5) Has legal advice been sought that the Trust is not in breach of the
Discrimination Act 1991 in respect of its policy of sales, as
enunciated by this statement.
MR CONNOLLY: The answer to the Members question is as follows
(1) The statement quoted follows a description of two quite separate
sales programs; "market" sales of vacant houses, and sales to
tenants. Houses that are assessed for sale by auction because they
are "in poor condition, badly located or of poor or inappropriate
design" are vacant when sold. Tenants are not involved.
(2) No. There has been no increase in the conditions governing the
sale of dwellings to tenants. The only qualifications about the kind
of house a tenant may buy are those listed on pages 12 and 13 of
the document referred to.
(3), (4)& (5) See (1) above.
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