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MINISTER FOR HOUSING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY QUESTION

QUESTION NO 1266

Housing Trust Properties - Carpeting

MR CORNWELL: Asked the Minister for Housing and Community Services -

(1) How many (a) houses; (b) flats and (c) bed-sitters owned by the ACT Housing Trust are not carpeted.

(2) What procedure exists to carpet these properties and when is it estimated this carpeting will be completed.

(3) Approximately how many of these properties are carpeted annually.

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

(1) This information is not available.

The Housing Trust has 12,412 dwellings; It has fitted carpet to approximately 5,000 dwellings as part of its Carpet, New Construction and Spot Purchase programs; In addition, 3,183 flats and bed-sitter units were fitted with floor coverings (mainly lino but some with carpet) at original construction or purchase; - Of the remaining 4200 dwellings (approximately), an unknown number would have had floor coverings fitted privately by tenants.

(2) and (3)

The procedures for carpeting are based on the following priority system:

• Priority 1. - Tenants with very young children in houses with bare

concrete floors, or tenants who have established health problems

requiring carpet;

• Priority 2 - Tenants of houses not included under Priority 1;

• Priority 3 - Tenants of flats or bed-sitter units.

The number of dwellings carpeted annually varies depending on program priorities and the availability of funds in each annual Budget. Approximately 440 dwellings will be carpeted in 1993/94 including instances where carpets are purchased from tenants on vacation of their dwellings. It is estimated that a further 460 dwellings will be carpeted in 1994/95. Completion of the program will depend on the level of resources allocated and on the decisions of future governments.

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