Page 1559 - Week 05 - Tuesday, 14 May 2019
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MS BERRY: Thank you, Madam Speaker. It is not large multi-unit—
Mr Coe interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Coe, the question has been asked. Resume your seat please, minister. Ms Le Couteur.
Ms Le Couteur: The supplementary did not ask for locations. It just said, “Given they are somewhere in Canberra will the 15 per cent apply to them?” It is not about location.
MADAM SPEAKER: Minister, in the minute you have left can you go to that point of the question.
MS BERRY: If Ms Le Couteur was referring to her question, “Which multi-unit?” I have said that there are no large multi-units and that public housing will be renewed; individual dwellings all across the city, across every district.
MR PARTON: Minister, will the strategy address in any way the current three-year waiting time for those on the standard waiting list or will that waiting time continue to blow out as more Canberrans are squeezed out of the private rental market?
MS BERRY: Public housing is not a solution for every person in our Community so the ACT government has made sure that there are a number of different opportunities for people across the ACT. Particularly for this cohort on the priority housing needs list, that is where the figure for the 200 new homes came from to make sure that we meet the needs of those people whose applications are required to have priority housing and that they get their needs met first of all.
The question gives me the opportunity to talk about Community Housing Canberra and their recent work with the ACT government in developing HomeGround and to call out to anybody in this place who might have a spare property, who might have an investment property available to—
Opposition members interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Members, please, let the minister—
Mr Hanson interjecting—
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Hanson!
MS BERRY: If there are members in this place who have a spare property, or if they are aware of others within their communities who might have investment properties and who want to provide those investment properties for the social good for people who are on low incomes so that they can be provided with an opportunity to get into a home in an affordable way and pay an affordable rent, this gives the opportunity for those investors to make the right decision and to provide an investment into the people of this town that is more than just bricks and mortar.
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