Page 2651 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 21 September 2022
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Michael McCormack, both of whom having to speak very enthusiastically about light rail. So that, Madam Speaker, is the journey here. No conspiracy theories. No conspiracy theories.
Opposition members interjecting—
MR BARR: Investment back into renewing public housing. So the outcome of all of this is a light rail project—
Opposition members interjecting—
MR BARR: and 1288 renewed public housing properties and more public housing being built. So in the end, we have improved the housing stock and we have improved public transport in the ACT, and we were able to achieve that while working with the Abbott government, for crying out loud!
MS LEE: Chief Minister, why has your government failed to keep pace with the population growth in the provision of public housing?
MR BARR: The government continues to invest in public housing. This government has invested more in public housing than any government before it in the history of self-government.
Opposition members interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Members!
MR BARR: We have invested in both the renewal of an ageing public housing stock that we inherited from the commonwealth and we have invested in growing the public housing portfolio and the community housing portfolio. Recent examples include the Common Ground project.
Opposition members interjecting—
MR BARR: They don’t like to hear about it, Madam Speaker. Ask the question and then it’s just a constant stream of interjections. The recent Common Ground project in my own suburb of Dickson; a wonderful community housing initiative, recently opened. There are literally more than 1,200 new public housing properties that have been built under the renewal scheme being led by the Deputy Chief Minister. It is the single largest investment in renewal of public housing in the Territory’s self-governing history—hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars invested in new housing right across the Territory. It has reduced the average age of the housing portfolio by nearly a decade. We still have more housing per capita than any other state or territory; we have the highest level of public housing provision of any state or territory; and we are renewing the housing stock, getting rid of the most degraded, inefficient, unsustainable housing, and building new housing to meet the needs of our city’s population.
There will always be a need to invest more and I am delighted that we now have a federal government that will partner with us to increase the pace of new social
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