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MINISTER FOR HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION NO 653

Housing Trust - Socially Disadvantaged 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 question and response at page 14 (Attachment One) that "The nature of tenants in terms of social disadvantage obviously require higher tenancy management efforts."

(1) What steps are taken to provide these higher tenancy management efforts.

(2) What percentage of Trust households would be in the social disadvantaged category.

(3) What is the additional cost of this higher tenancy management effort.

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

(1) The purpose of the ACT Housing Trust is to assist individuals who are disadvantaged in the housing market and the majority of activities of the organisation in providing housing assistance are directed towards this purpose. The operation of income tests, waiting lists, priority housing processes, emergency housing and supported accommodation, rental rebate processes are all activities which "require higher tenancy management efforts" than

(2) At the point of entry into housing assistance programs (both public housing and rent assistance) all recipients of assistance are disadvantaged. If income is taken as a measure of social disadvantage, then all recipients of rent relief are disadvantaged and about 85% of public housing tenants are currently disadvantaged.

(3) See (1) above; it is not possible to separately identify costs at this level of detail.

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