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MINISTER FOR HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION NO 1346

Housing Trust - Rent Levels

MR CORNWELL - Asked the Minister for Housing and Community Services -As at 23 August 1994 -

(1) What is the basis upon which non-rebated ACT Housing Trust rent is charged.

(2) Are items such as contributions made by the tenant, eg carpet, heater, established gardens, taken into account in setting the rent.

(3) What is the non-rebated rent of a 1951 Trust three bedroom weatherboard house in good condition in Yarralumla.

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

(1) Market rent.

(2) No. The rent is fixed on the basis that the tenant improvements had not been carried out.

(3) $177.50 per week.

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