Page 2233 - Week 06 - Thursday, 6 June 2019
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Opposition members interjecting—
MS BERRY: I am explaining the data and how it works. It is often not a single repeat of homelessness; it is often a number of different periods of homelessness because of circumstances surrounding particular individuals.
On the strong sign-up to the affordable home purchase database, that will provide opportunities for people to, as I said, get into homes of their own in ways that they have probably not been able to before, because they are matched up to a home within a new area of the ACT that is releasing properties.
Issues around the availability of good homelessness services drive that data as well. In the ACT we have the best homelessness services in the country. That is the reason why in the ACT homelessness figures have gone down when nationally homelessness figures have risen.
Planning—land release program
MR HANSON: My question is to the Minister for Planning and Land Management. Minister, why have your government’s monopolistic practices in relation to land release caused land prices to more than double since 2011?
MR GENTLEMAN: I do not agree with the premise of Mr Hanson’s question. Our land release program has been set in relation to the amount of opportunity for land purchases—that is the way we look at land release in the future—and how many blocks would be available for those people wishing to purchase land in the ACT. The rates are set by the appropriate measures.
MR HANSON: Minister, how much further are land prices expected to increase in 2019-20?
MR GENTLEMAN: I do not have a figure on how much land prices will increase in the time period. I can say that there are still around 400 blocks available on the SLA sheet at the moment, remaining unsold, so there is an opportunity for people wishing to buy land in the ACT to do so. That is on top of what we are releasing.
MISS C BURCH: Minister, what is the average cost of land per square metre in the ACT?
MR GENTLEMAN: That varies depending on the area concerned, and the block of land.
ACTION bus service—network
MISS C BURCH: My question is to the Minister for Transport. Minister, last year the Canberra Times reported that Canberra households spend the most in Australia on owning and running vehicles. Minister, why do Canberrans spend the most in Australia on owning and running vehicles?
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