Page 1867 - Week 09 - Thursday, 19 October 1989
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Question resolved in the affirmative.
HOUSING POLICY REVIEW 1989-90
Ministerial Statement and Papers
MR SPEAKER: I understand it is the wish of the Assembly to have a cognate debate on the housing policy review 1989-90 and order of the day No. 17 dealing with the ministerial statement on youth housing measures. If that is the case, I will allow that course to be followed.
Debate resumed from 27 September 1989, on motion by Mrs Grassby:
That the Assembly takes note of the following papers:
Housing Policy Review 1989-90 -
Explanatory notes;
Ministerial statement, 27 September 1989.
MR STEFANIAK (11.40): Firstly, Mr Speaker, I say that I am pleased to see a housing review and I am also pleased to see the Minister's statement in relation to youth housing measures, some of which I think may well have resulted from certain issues that I have raised over the last week or so. In the time allotted to me I do not propose to go through the entire paper because there are some statements within that which I do not think necessarily need covering by me. However, I intend to highlight certain areas, especially those of concern, and I will put forward certain suggestions where I believe things can be done better. I certainly hope the Minister takes note of that.
I turn to page 2 of the 1989-90 housing policy review, relating to public rental housing. In the second paragraph on page 2 the Minister states:
This year we will see a 2.6 per cent increase in the stock of Housing Trust dwellings and this is about equal to the estimated household formation rate.
She goes on to say:
The objective is to maintain the waiting time for a house at about the current level and this can only be achieved in a socially just manner if the size of the program is related to the growth rate of new households.
Now, it is interesting to note that in the last month or so the Minister has indicated that she now realises there is private as well as public housing in the ACT. It is good to see certain points being made by her in this respect in the last month or so.
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