Page 4671 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 19 October 2011
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MR HARGREAVES: Minister, what feedback did your directorate receive regarding the developments completed under the nation building program?
MS BURCH: Whilst I have attended most of the launches of the completed programs, it has provided me with a great opportunity to hear and witness first hand some of the benefits of these new developments. The responses have been overwhelmingly positive.
Indeed, just last week I had the pleasure of launching a 10-unit social housing development in Narrabundah which was developed under this package. Just this morning, incidentally, there was a Nican launch of the Know before you go booklet, which was about supporting people with a disability to participate more in the community. At that Nican launch I happened to meet a young man who had just moved into a unit. So there was a young man with a disability in a class C adaptable new unit, built through a partnership between ACT Labor and the commonwealth government, and it was a very good story indeed. He is very pleased to be housed in purpose-built, suitable accommodation.
Another great story I heard was about two tenants who both lived in the same street in Fraser, who have been friends for over 30 years. They were absolutely delighted to find that they had both been selected to relocate to the same site and were once again neighbours. Another couple who have lived in the same home for 37 years recently took up housing at a Chapman site and, again, were so happy with the timing, as both of them had been experiencing difficulty in managing their family home and now they are both together in Chapman.
Another great story of the benefits realised through this was the story of a young Indigenous mum with two young children who moved into a free-standing home in Tuggeranong. The home was vacated by an elderly gentleman who could no longer maintain the house and garden and had moved into an older persons unit. The young mum and her kids had been residing in a women’s refuge and they now have their own home for the children to establish themselves in and to have what in many ways is their—(Time expired.)
MR SPEAKER: Ms Bresnan, a supplementary.
MS BRESNAN: Will the end of the stimulus funding be reflected in the asset management plan, and is that plan still due to be released this year?
MS BURCH: Yes, the department is working on the assets management plan, and this government has made a commitment to have it ready at the end of the year.
DR BOURKE: A supplementary, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, Dr Bourke.
DR BOURKE: Minister, could you update the Assembly with the latest figures on the number of public housing tenants helped through this program?
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