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MINISTER FOR HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION NO 113

Housing Trust - Sales to Tenants

MR CORNWELL - asked the Minister for Housing and Community Services -

In relation to the ACT Housing Trust Sales to Tenants program -

(1) What percentage of houses does the Trust seek to own in various areas of the ACT.

(2) In what areas of the ACT are there now low concentrations of public housing as a result of previous sales of government housing.

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

(1) The Housing Trust seeks to disperse its housing stock throughout the city in order to avoid social stigma through the concentration of public housing. The percentage of stock in particular suburbs varies widely.

(2) The Housing Trust owns less than 5% of houses in the following suburbs as the result of previous sales of government housing:

Aranda, Braddon, Barton, Campbell, Curtin, Farrer, Fisher, Forrest, Holder, Pearce and Reid.

Some suburbs like Turner, Griffith, Braddon, and Reid have a very low ownership of houses, but have a high ownership of flats along arterial roads bordering these suburbs.

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