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MINISTER FOR HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION NO 621

Housing Trust - Private Rent Defaulters

MR CORNWELL: Asked the Minister for Housing and Community Services - In relation to rent relief assistance for tenants in private housing -

(1) If the tenant does not use the rent relief to pay the rent, what recourse does the landlord have to recover the money.

(2) Does the ACT Housing Trust reimburse the landlord for rent loss at (1) and if not; why not.

(3) What amount of money has been lost to private landlords in 1991-92 in circumstances as described at (1).

(4) Does the Trust have any arrangement to protect private landlords from persistent rent defaulters.

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

(1) Legal action against the tenant with whom he or she has signed a tenancy agreement.

(2) No. See answer at (1).

(3) This information is not known.

(4) No