❓ The Minister for Housing provides an update on the government's affordable housing strategy, highlighting achievements in reducing the social housing waiting list, delivering new homes, and providing financial assistance programs. The Minister contrasts the government's success with the opposition's lack of a strategy.
AnsweredQoN 415Legislative Assembly
QuestionView source ↗
AFFORDABLE
HOUSING STRATEGY
415. Mrs G.J. GODFREY to the
Minister for Housing:
Can the minister please update the house on the progress
already made on the government's affordable housing strategy?
HOUSING STRATEGY
415. Mrs G.J. GODFREY to the
Minister for Housing:
Can the minister please update the house on the progress
already made on the government's affordable housing strategy?
AnswerView source ↗
I would be delighted to update the house on our affordable
housing strategy, and I know that the member for Belmont is very interested in
my answer. Everyone knows that the state's affordable housing strategy
is about creating viable alternatives in the affordable housing market, and we
do that to move people off the waiting list for social housing and into new
houses.
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Members!
Mr W.R. MARMION :
We have been working with the private sector, the community sector and the
housing industry to provide a range of affordable options in the whole
continuum of the housing sector. By providing these options, we are working on
our waiting list, which has gone down by 4 000 places in the last two and a
half years, while at the same time 60 000 people a year are moving to Western
Australia. Even with that background, we have managed to bring our waiting list
down from above 24 000 to just over 20 000.
Ms J.M. Freeman interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Member for Mirrabooka!
Mr
W.R. MARMION : I would be delighted to update the numbers to satisfy the
member for Belmont's question. We have delivered 4 200 new social homes
since 2010. In the 2012–13 budget, $130 million was allocated to
provide another 433 houses. We have guaranteed in the next three years to
redevelop 200 existing sites to deliver 500 new affordable homes on our own
land. We have provided an additional $210 million over three years for housing
support services for 458 people with high support needs. We have freed up and
reallocated 1 700 public houses to applicants on our waiting list. Under the
national rental affordability scheme, we have already delivered 1 900 new
homes, which are rented out at 20 per cent or more below the market rate. We
have also guaranteed a commitment of 5 432 homes by 2016. Under our Keystart
loan program, we have helped 7 400 people to get their own home who would
otherwise not have got a loan through the banks, and they are grateful to the
government and to Keystart. Through our shared equity scheme, we have assisted
770 people who would otherwise not have been able to own their own home. In another
important strategy, we have provided 7 400 building lots, because without an
adequate supply of affordable land, we will not have affordable houses.
I am very proud that we are the only
state with a strategy. The opposition tried to put a strategy in place, but it
never got a strategy in place. We have a strategy and we are delivering on that
strategy. By 2020, we will have delivered 20 000 new homes in Western
Australia.
housing strategy, and I know that the member for Belmont is very interested in
my answer. Everyone knows that the state's affordable housing strategy
is about creating viable alternatives in the affordable housing market, and we
do that to move people off the waiting list for social housing and into new
houses.
Several members interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Members!
Mr W.R. MARMION :
We have been working with the private sector, the community sector and the
housing industry to provide a range of affordable options in the whole
continuum of the housing sector. By providing these options, we are working on
our waiting list, which has gone down by 4 000 places in the last two and a
half years, while at the same time 60 000 people a year are moving to Western
Australia. Even with that background, we have managed to bring our waiting list
down from above 24 000 to just over 20 000.
Ms J.M. Freeman interjected.
The SPEAKER :
Member for Mirrabooka!
Mr
W.R. MARMION : I would be delighted to update the numbers to satisfy the
member for Belmont's question. We have delivered 4 200 new social homes
since 2010. In the 2012–13 budget, $130 million was allocated to
provide another 433 houses. We have guaranteed in the next three years to
redevelop 200 existing sites to deliver 500 new affordable homes on our own
land. We have provided an additional $210 million over three years for housing
support services for 458 people with high support needs. We have freed up and
reallocated 1 700 public houses to applicants on our waiting list. Under the
national rental affordability scheme, we have already delivered 1 900 new
homes, which are rented out at 20 per cent or more below the market rate. We
have also guaranteed a commitment of 5 432 homes by 2016. Under our Keystart
loan program, we have helped 7 400 people to get their own home who would
otherwise not have got a loan through the banks, and they are grateful to the
government and to Keystart. Through our shared equity scheme, we have assisted
770 people who would otherwise not have been able to own their own home. In another
important strategy, we have provided 7 400 building lots, because without an
adequate supply of affordable land, we will not have affordable houses.
I am very proud that we are the only
state with a strategy. The opposition tried to put a strategy in place, but it
never got a strategy in place. We have a strategy and we are delivering on that
strategy. By 2020, we will have delivered 20 000 new homes in Western
Australia.
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