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MINISTER FOR HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION NO 1098

Housing Trust Properties - Duffy

MR CORNWELL: Asked the Minister for Housing and Community Services -

(1) Why is there a delay in effecting repairs to ACT Housing Trust properties at the Forestry Settlement, Cotter Road, Duffy.

(2) Is the delay occasioned by a decision on the housing infill proposal for North Duffy/Holder.

(3) Is the policy still to give priority to forestry workers occupying properties at this settlement and, if not, why not, and when was the policy changed.

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

(1) There is no delay in effecting repairs to ACT Housing Trust properties at the Forestry Settlement, Cotter Road, Duffy. Urgent repairs and minor repairs are actioned on tenant request. Ten properties are scheduled for cyclical external repairs and painting during 1993/94. The remaining properties were repaired and painted during 1992/93.

(2) Not applicable.

(3) Of the 19 houses on the site, only one is job-tied, for allocation to a Forestry worker nominated by ACT Forests. All of the other houses are allocated, on vacancy, to people on the Housing Trusts waiting list. The practice of allocation changed gradually during the 1970s and 1980s as the then Housing Branch took over management of the houses, on behalf of the ACT Administration. The practice was confirmed as policy following the enactment of the Housing Assistance Act in 1987.

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