❓ Question regarding public housing maintenance expenditure and contractor usage over the past five years. The answer provides total expenditure but declines to list all contractors and their allocated work due to resource constraints, offering to answer more specific questions.
AnsweredQoN 6090Legislative Assembly
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I refer to maintenance works for public housing, and ask for each of the past five years: (a) how much money has been spent on the maintenance and repairs of public housing stock; (b) which contractors were used to undertake repairs and maintenance works; and (c) what was the value of work allocated to each contractor?
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Answered
16 June 2020
Responded by
Minister for Housing
Response time
12 days
(a) Maintenance spend on public housing:
Financial Year
Amount spent
2015-16
$137,670,366
2016-17
$164,126,938
2017-18
$162,247,790
2018-19
$162,186,257
As at 31 December 2019
$79,641,351
(b) Head contractors:
(c) The Department of Communities manages and maintains over 51,000 properties, comprising Public, Community, Government Regional Officer, Aboriginal and Non-Government Organisation Housing, across 11 regions and allocates work to over 1,740 sub-contractors across the state through the Head Maintenance Contract.
It is not considered a reasonable or appropriate use of Agency resources to compile a breakdown across the entire state for each contractor given the breadth of the amount of work that would be involved.
If the Member has a question about a particular contractor, I would suggest he ask a more specific question and I will endeavour to answer it.
The McGowan State Government’s Social Housing Economic Recovery Package announced in June 2020, is the largest housing maintenance and refurbishment program in our State’s history. This $318.7 million stimulus package will see the refurbishment of 1,500 public and community houses, supported accommodation facilities such as family and domestic violence refuges, and residential group homes. It also includes a rolling maintenance program targeting 3,800 regional government-owned properties, and the delivery of about 250 new homes to help the most vulnerable people in our community.
Financial Year
Amount spent
2015-16
$137,670,366
2016-17
$164,126,938
2017-18
$162,247,790
2018-19
$162,186,257
As at 31 December 2019
$79,641,351
(b) Head contractors:
(c) The Department of Communities manages and maintains over 51,000 properties, comprising Public, Community, Government Regional Officer, Aboriginal and Non-Government Organisation Housing, across 11 regions and allocates work to over 1,740 sub-contractors across the state through the Head Maintenance Contract.
It is not considered a reasonable or appropriate use of Agency resources to compile a breakdown across the entire state for each contractor given the breadth of the amount of work that would be involved.
If the Member has a question about a particular contractor, I would suggest he ask a more specific question and I will endeavour to answer it.
The McGowan State Government’s Social Housing Economic Recovery Package announced in June 2020, is the largest housing maintenance and refurbishment program in our State’s history. This $318.7 million stimulus package will see the refurbishment of 1,500 public and community houses, supported accommodation facilities such as family and domestic violence refuges, and residential group homes. It also includes a rolling maintenance program targeting 3,800 regional government-owned properties, and the delivery of about 250 new homes to help the most vulnerable people in our community.
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