Hon. Samantha Rowe asked about the number of public housing maintenance requests and the average waiting time for resolution in the South East metropolitan region in 2013. The Department of Housing provided the number of job orders received but couldn't provide the average resolution time without significant resource diversion.

AnsweredQoN 1224Legislative Council
Asked
13 May 2014
Portfolio
Housing

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(1) How many public housing maintenance requests were received by the Department of Housing from residents in the South East metropolitan administrative region in 2013?
(2) What was the average waiting time for these maintenance issues to be resolved?

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Answered
12 August 2014
Responded by
Minister for Agriculture and Food representing the Minister for Housing
Response time
91 days
The Department of Housing advises:
(1) 42 342 job orders were received.
(2) The Department is unable to provide accurate average times for completing the above job orders without diverting significant resources to manually confirm the data for each job order.

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