GOVERNMENT REGIONAL
OFFICERS' HOUSING — BROOME
1233. Hon WILSON TUCKER to the Leader of the House
representing the Minister for Housing:
I refer to my previous question
without notice 1130 regarding Government Regional Officers' Housing
properties in Broome.
(1) Of the 413
GROH properties, how many are owned by the Housing Authority, as opposed to
leased or under some other arrangement?
(2) Is there a waitlist for eligible
public servants to be placed in a GROH property in Broome?
(3) If yes to (2), what is the
average wait time?
Hon SUE
ELLERY replied:
If I can assist the member as the
Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council, I remind him that the
arrangements that big agencies like the Department of Education, police and
Health have is that they take hold of a whole range of properties. The
Department of Communities does not have information about the properties that
those big agencies hold. The member might want to think about crafting his
future questions in that way. The answer that has been provided is as follows.
(1) Of the 413
GROH properties in Broome, a total of 79 are owned by the Department of
Communities and 334 are privately leased.
(2)–(3) The
Department of Communities does not operate a waitlist for GROH. Client agencies
continually submit and update requests for GROH to enable them to forecast and
meet the changing demand as part of their workforce planning. The requests
fluctuate during the course of the year as business needs change, and do not
always indicate an immediate demand for housing.