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1992 The Housing Advisory Committee was appointed to provide

strategic advice and direction to the ACT Housing Trust.

Off-budget borrowing was introduced to finance loans to

home buyers.

A new arrangement was introduced for tenants to ring ACT

Housing Trust for maintenance requests.

A technical audit of all existing properties commenced.

The tenant participation program was introduced.

The proportion of income for new recipients or rent relief for

those renting in the market increased from 25% to 30%.

A policy was introduced to adjust rental rebate scales to more

accurately reflect a tenants capacity to pay.

Three energy efficient houses were built and a trial to assess

their effectiveness commenced.

Medium density housing in Ainslie completed as a

demonstration redevelopment project under the Housing

Development Program.

1993 Establishment of three separate trust accounts: home loan,

housing rental and home purchase assistance. This

replaced the ACT Housing Assistance Fund.

Joint venture redevelopment with private sector approved by

Minister.