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MINISTER FOR HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION NO 1199

Housing Trust - Rental Rebates

MR CORNWELL: Asked the Minister for Housing and Community Services -In relation to the statement (page 3, ACT Budget Newsletter, special edition, December 1993) that "The ACT Housing Trust helps more than 10,300 tenants with rental rebates (85% of current tenants). This level has increased significantly from 65% three years ago."

(1) What caused the increase of 20 percent over three years?

(2) How, as subsequently claimed in the article, does this level of increase "indicate the success of the ACT Governments allocation policies"?

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

(1) The increase is attributable to the policy of the Housing Trust to charge market rentals and changes in the socio-economic profile of our clients.

(2) It is the role of the Housing Trust to provide secure, affordable and appropriate accommodation to those persons who are most in need of public housing. The overwhelming majority of new allocations are to people who are entitled to a rent rebate. This is an indicator that public rental housing assistance is being appropriately targeted.

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