PUBLIC HOUSING — NUMBER
307. Hon STEVE MARTIN to the Leader of the House
representing the Minister for Housing:
I refer to state government housing
numbers.
(1) For the end of
each calendar year 2016 to 2021, what was the number of state government social
houses?
(2) For those in (1), how many were
vacant?
Hon SUE ELLERY replied:
I thank the honourable member for
some notice of the question.
(1) The
Department of Communities provides standard reporting by financial year. The
rest of that answer across the years 2016 to 2021 is in tabular form, so I seek
leave to have that incorporated into Hansard.
[Leave granted for the following
material to be incorporated.]
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As
at date:
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Total
Social Housing Stock
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30
June 2016
|
43,196
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30
June 2017
|
44,087
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30
June 2018
|
43,863
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30
June 2019
|
43,615
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30
June 2020
|
42,932
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31
May 2021
|
42,715
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(2) Records of
community housing vacancies are not kept by the Department of Communities, as
they are managed by the community housing organisations that lease them. There
is some further information that again is in
tabular form across the years 2016 to 2021, so I seek leave to have that
information incorporated into Hansard.
[Leave granted for the following
material to be incorporated.]
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As
at date:
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Public
Housing Vacancies
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Returning
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Not-Returning
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30
June 2016
|
1,041
|
557
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30
June 2017
|
1,402
|
580
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30
June 2018
|
905
|
872
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30
June 2019
|
1,040
|
905
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30
June 2020
|
797
|
647
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31
May 2021
|
1,014
|
540
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Properties can become vacant for a number
of reasons. Of the 1 554 properties vacant as at 31 May 2021, just over 1 000
of these properties are undergoing maintenance repairs and will be returning to
public housing stock once complete.