GOVERNMENT REGIONAL
OFFICERS' HOUSING — BROOME
1130. Hon WILSON TUCKER to the Leader of the House
representing the Minister for Housing:
Can the minister please provide
updated figures for the current Government Regional Officers' Housing
stock in Broome and the number of allocated and unallocated vacant GROH
properties in Broome broken down by vacancy periods of three to six months, six
to 12 months and 12-plus months?
Hon SUE ELLERY replied:
I thank the honourable member for
some notice of the question.
Government
Regional Officers' Housing, or GROH, properties are provided to client
agencies, which then determine the allocation of properties to their
employees, not the Department of Communities. As at 31 October 2022, there were
413 GROH properties in Broome. Of these properties, 30 were vacant and
allocated to client agencies, and two were
unallocated. These two properties have since been allocated to a client agency.
All vacant GROH properties in Broome have been vacant for less than
three months. It is not uncommon that client agencies may have allocated vacant properties to enable them to recruit and
deploy suitable employees, including health staff, teachers and police.