❓ Mr. Bolt questions the Minister's ability to manage a large social housing complex given issues with a smaller one. The Minister accuses the opposition of hypocrisy and opposing social housing development.
AnsweredQoN 121Legislative Assembly
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Social housing—Inglewood
121. Mr David Bolt to the Minister for
Housing and Works:
I have a
supplementary question. What confidence can the community have that the
minister can properly manage a 50-unit public housing complex when he is
clearly already struggling to handle the serious problems with a social housing
complex half its size?
121. Mr David Bolt to the Minister for
Housing and Works:
I have a
supplementary question. What confidence can the community have that the
minister can properly manage a 50-unit public housing complex when he is
clearly already struggling to handle the serious problems with a social housing
complex half its size?
AnswerView source ↗
Can I just put this
issue to rest? This is an issue that has been perpetrated by the new housing
spokesperson. There is this idea that 20 grouped housing units is somehow
unusual for all social housing. It is not. The reality is that a vast number of
complexes, group dwellings and multi-dwellings are provided by either state or
community providers. That is the model that the community housing sector has
embraced. There are 40,000 social houses in the system. Of course, as the
former Lord Mayor of Perth would know, there is actually a significant number
of social housing complexes of that type in my electorate of Perth. It is very
clear that the WA Liberals are going down this path of saying: All social
housing is bad. Do not do social housing projects.
Several members
interjected.
The Speaker: Members!
Mr John Carey: Let us be very clear on this: we now
have a new shadow housing spokesperson, and I will let all the providers know that
the opposition's position is to oppose community housing development. That is
the truth here.
Several members
interjected.
Mr John Carey: No, that is the truth. It is the truth
that at a time when every state, whether Liberal or Labor, is driving housing
supply across the continuum, is saying that social and affordable housing is a
critical part of the mix and is funding those types of projects, the opposition
is opposing those types of projects.
Several members
interjected.
The Speaker: Leader of the Opposition! The question
has been asked, the minister is responding. It is a supplementary question, so
it would be great if you could start to wrap up, minister.
Mr John Carey: The level of hypocrisy of the WA
Liberals is extraordinary. The Liberal Party signed on to a homelessness
inquiry that embraces that model of community and social housing. Members
opposite are hypocrites. The WA Liberals are
hypocrites, according to the way in which they tell different stakeholders
different things. Before the election, the Liberal leader went to the
Western Australian Council of Social Service and said, "These services are
important." Then members opposite go to residents and say, "We will
oppose this." You have no values. The WA Liberals have no moral compass.
You tell different things to different people!
Several members
interjected.
The Speaker: Members!
Several members
interjected.
The Speaker: Members! Leader of the Opposition, stop
it! Minister, if you could finish, please.
Mr John Carey: The point I am making is this: the WA
Liberals, at every opportunity, tell different things to different groups. They
go to WACOSS and the social housing sector and say that the state should have
more. Then they go to other stakeholders and residents and say, "We will
stop those developments." The WA Liberals are hypocrites.
issue to rest? This is an issue that has been perpetrated by the new housing
spokesperson. There is this idea that 20 grouped housing units is somehow
unusual for all social housing. It is not. The reality is that a vast number of
complexes, group dwellings and multi-dwellings are provided by either state or
community providers. That is the model that the community housing sector has
embraced. There are 40,000 social houses in the system. Of course, as the
former Lord Mayor of Perth would know, there is actually a significant number
of social housing complexes of that type in my electorate of Perth. It is very
clear that the WA Liberals are going down this path of saying: All social
housing is bad. Do not do social housing projects.
Several members
interjected.
The Speaker: Members!
Mr John Carey: Let us be very clear on this: we now
have a new shadow housing spokesperson, and I will let all the providers know that
the opposition's position is to oppose community housing development. That is
the truth here.
Several members
interjected.
Mr John Carey: No, that is the truth. It is the truth
that at a time when every state, whether Liberal or Labor, is driving housing
supply across the continuum, is saying that social and affordable housing is a
critical part of the mix and is funding those types of projects, the opposition
is opposing those types of projects.
Several members
interjected.
The Speaker: Leader of the Opposition! The question
has been asked, the minister is responding. It is a supplementary question, so
it would be great if you could start to wrap up, minister.
Mr John Carey: The level of hypocrisy of the WA
Liberals is extraordinary. The Liberal Party signed on to a homelessness
inquiry that embraces that model of community and social housing. Members
opposite are hypocrites. The WA Liberals are
hypocrites, according to the way in which they tell different stakeholders
different things. Before the election, the Liberal leader went to the
Western Australian Council of Social Service and said, "These services are
important." Then members opposite go to residents and say, "We will
oppose this." You have no values. The WA Liberals have no moral compass.
You tell different things to different people!
Several members
interjected.
The Speaker: Members!
Several members
interjected.
The Speaker: Members! Leader of the Opposition, stop
it! Minister, if you could finish, please.
Mr John Carey: The point I am making is this: the WA
Liberals, at every opportunity, tell different things to different groups. They
go to WACOSS and the social housing sector and say that the state should have
more. Then they go to other stakeholders and residents and say, "We will
stop those developments." The WA Liberals are hypocrites.
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