Hon Steve Martin asks the Minister for Housing about the number of housing options assessment forms submitted and their progression to the social housing waitlist. The Minister responded that the data is not readily available and would require significant manual review.

AnsweredQoN 1054Legislative Council
Asked
26 October 2022
Portfolio
Housing

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PUBLIC HOUSING — WAITLIST
1054. Hon STEVE MARTIN to the Leader of the House representing
the Minister for Housing:
I refer to the housing options
assessment that is required to be submitted by potential public housing
applicants.
(1) For each of the following
years, how many people submitted a housing options assessment form —
(a) 2019–2020;
(b) 2020–2021;
(c) 2021–2022;
(d) 2022–2023 to date?
(2) For those in (1), how many
progressed to the social housing waitlist and how many were rejected?

AnswerView source ↗

I thank the honourable member for
some notice of the question.
(1)–(2) The
housing options assessment was implemented in the Department of Communities
service delivery practice from 28 September 2021.
The
data requested is not currently captured by the Department of Communities'
internal reporting systems and would require a manual review of
individual files. Given the level of agency resourcing required to provide this
detailed information, it is not considered to be a reasonable use of government
resources.

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