❓ A WA parliamentary question regarding the funding source for a $32 million homelessness initiative, specifically questioning the use of the rental accommodation fund and its justification under the Residential Tenancies Act 1987. The Minister's response clarifies the funding breakdown and legal basis.
AnsweredQoN 1391Legislative Council
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HOMELESSNESS, FUNDING 1391. Hon GIZ WATSON to the Minister for Housing and Works: Regarding the recent allocation of $32 million to tackle homelessness, I ask - (1) Is the proposed initiative to be funded from the rental accommodation fund? (2) If no to (1), what is the source of the funding? (3) If yes to (1), what provision of the Residential Tenancies Act 1987 enables the Government to use rental accommodation fund money for this purpose? (4) If yes to (1), how much of the rental assistance fund is being used for the proposed initiative? (5) If yes to (1), what is the reason that private tenants’ money is being used to fund government initiatives to address homelessness? Hon TOM STEPHENS
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I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(2) Partly. An amount of $5 million is being provided in 2001-02 for public housing; $500 000 per annum is being provided from 2001-02 for additional financial counselling services to work with people who are at risk of becoming homeless through increasing debt. (3) Public housing - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 5; Financial counselling - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 3a. (4) An amount of $5.5 million in 2001-02; $500 000 in each of 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06. (5) The interest earned from the rental accommodation fund is the interest earned on tenants’ bonds and hence by this allocation, in accordance with the statutory basis for the fund, the money is returned for use by the most needy of tenants, and for the homeless, and the potentially homeless, through public housing and through counselling assistance to support people to remain in housing.
HOMELESSNESS, FUNDING
Regarding the recent allocation of $32 million to tackle homelessness, I ask - (1) Is the proposed initiative to be funded from the rental accommodation fund? (2) If no to (1), what is the source of the funding? (3) If yes to (1), what provision of the Residential Tenancies Act 1987 enables the Government to use rental accommodation fund money for this purpose? (4) If yes to (1), how much of the rental assistance fund is being used for the proposed initiative? (5) If yes to (1), what is the reason that private tenants’ money is being used to fund government initiatives to address homelessness? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(2) Partly. An amount of $5 million is being provided in 2001-02 for public housing; $500 000 per annum is being provided from 2001-02 for additional financial counselling services to work with people who are at risk of becoming homeless through increasing debt. (3) Public housing - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 5; Financial counselling - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 3a. (4) An amount of $5.5 million in 2001-02; $500 000 in each of 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06. (5) The interest earned from the rental accommodation fund is the interest earned on tenants’ bonds and hence by this allocation, in accordance with the statutory basis for the fund, the money is returned for use by the most needy of tenants, and for the homeless, and the potentially homeless, through public housing and through counselling assistance to support people to remain in housing.
(1) Is the proposed initiative to be funded from the rental accommodation fund? (2) If no to (1), what is the source of the funding? (3) If yes to (1), what provision of the Residential Tenancies Act 1987 enables the Government to use rental accommodation fund money for this purpose? (4) If yes to (1), how much of the rental assistance fund is being used for the proposed initiative? (5) If yes to (1), what is the reason that private tenants’ money is being used to fund government initiatives to address homelessness? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(2) Partly. An amount of $5 million is being provided in 2001-02 for public housing; $500 000 per annum is being provided from 2001-02 for additional financial counselling services to work with people who are at risk of becoming homeless through increasing debt. (3) Public housing - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 5; Financial counselling - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 3a. (4) An amount of $5.5 million in 2001-02; $500 000 in each of 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06. (5) The interest earned from the rental accommodation fund is the interest earned on tenants’ bonds and hence by this allocation, in accordance with the statutory basis for the fund, the money is returned for use by the most needy of tenants, and for the homeless, and the potentially homeless, through public housing and through counselling assistance to support people to remain in housing.
(2) If no to (1), what is the source of the funding? (3) If yes to (1), what provision of the Residential Tenancies Act 1987 enables the Government to use rental accommodation fund money for this purpose? (4) If yes to (1), how much of the rental assistance fund is being used for the proposed initiative? (5) If yes to (1), what is the reason that private tenants’ money is being used to fund government initiatives to address homelessness? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(2) Partly. An amount of $5 million is being provided in 2001-02 for public housing; $500 000 per annum is being provided from 2001-02 for additional financial counselling services to work with people who are at risk of becoming homeless through increasing debt. (3) Public housing - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 5; Financial counselling - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 3a. (4) An amount of $5.5 million in 2001-02; $500 000 in each of 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06. (5) The interest earned from the rental accommodation fund is the interest earned on tenants’ bonds and hence by this allocation, in accordance with the statutory basis for the fund, the money is returned for use by the most needy of tenants, and for the homeless, and the potentially homeless, through public housing and through counselling assistance to support people to remain in housing.
(3) If yes to (1), what provision of the Residential Tenancies Act 1987 enables the Government to use rental accommodation fund money for this purpose? (4) If yes to (1), how much of the rental assistance fund is being used for the proposed initiative? (5) If yes to (1), what is the reason that private tenants’ money is being used to fund government initiatives to address homelessness? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(2) Partly. An amount of $5 million is being provided in 2001-02 for public housing; $500 000 per annum is being provided from 2001-02 for additional financial counselling services to work with people who are at risk of becoming homeless through increasing debt. (3) Public housing - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 5; Financial counselling - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 3a. (4) An amount of $5.5 million in 2001-02; $500 000 in each of 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06. (5) The interest earned from the rental accommodation fund is the interest earned on tenants’ bonds and hence by this allocation, in accordance with the statutory basis for the fund, the money is returned for use by the most needy of tenants, and for the homeless, and the potentially homeless, through public housing and through counselling assistance to support people to remain in housing.
(4) If yes to (1), how much of the rental assistance fund is being used for the proposed initiative? (5) If yes to (1), what is the reason that private tenants’ money is being used to fund government initiatives to address homelessness? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(2) Partly. An amount of $5 million is being provided in 2001-02 for public housing; $500 000 per annum is being provided from 2001-02 for additional financial counselling services to work with people who are at risk of becoming homeless through increasing debt. (3) Public housing - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 5; Financial counselling - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 3a. (4) An amount of $5.5 million in 2001-02; $500 000 in each of 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06. (5) The interest earned from the rental accommodation fund is the interest earned on tenants’ bonds and hence by this allocation, in accordance with the statutory basis for the fund, the money is returned for use by the most needy of tenants, and for the homeless, and the potentially homeless, through public housing and through counselling assistance to support people to remain in housing.
(5) If yes to (1), what is the reason that private tenants’ money is being used to fund government initiatives to address homelessness? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(2) Partly. An amount of $5 million is being provided in 2001-02 for public housing; $500 000 per annum is being provided from 2001-02 for additional financial counselling services to work with people who are at risk of becoming homeless through increasing debt. (3) Public housing - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 5; Financial counselling - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 3a. (4) An amount of $5.5 million in 2001-02; $500 000 in each of 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06. (5) The interest earned from the rental accommodation fund is the interest earned on tenants’ bonds and hence by this allocation, in accordance with the statutory basis for the fund, the money is returned for use by the most needy of tenants, and for the homeless, and the potentially homeless, through public housing and through counselling assistance to support people to remain in housing.
Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(2) Partly. An amount of $5 million is being provided in 2001-02 for public housing; $500 000 per annum is being provided from 2001-02 for additional financial counselling services to work with people who are at risk of becoming homeless through increasing debt. (3) Public housing - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 5; Financial counselling - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 3a. (4) An amount of $5.5 million in 2001-02; $500 000 in each of 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06. (5) The interest earned from the rental accommodation fund is the interest earned on tenants’ bonds and hence by this allocation, in accordance with the statutory basis for the fund, the money is returned for use by the most needy of tenants, and for the homeless, and the potentially homeless, through public housing and through counselling assistance to support people to remain in housing.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(2) Partly. An amount of $5 million is being provided in 2001-02 for public housing; $500 000 per annum is being provided from 2001-02 for additional financial counselling services to work with people who are at risk of becoming homeless through increasing debt. (3) Public housing - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 5; Financial counselling - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 3a. (4) An amount of $5.5 million in 2001-02; $500 000 in each of 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06. (5) The interest earned from the rental accommodation fund is the interest earned on tenants’ bonds and hence by this allocation, in accordance with the statutory basis for the fund, the money is returned for use by the most needy of tenants, and for the homeless, and the potentially homeless, through public housing and through counselling assistance to support people to remain in housing.
(1)-(2) Partly. An amount of $5 million is being provided in 2001-02 for public housing; $500 000 per annum is being provided from 2001-02 for additional financial counselling services to work with people who are at risk of becoming homeless through increasing debt. (3) Public housing - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 5; Financial counselling - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 3a. (4) An amount of $5.5 million in 2001-02; $500 000 in each of 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06. (5) The interest earned from the rental accommodation fund is the interest earned on tenants’ bonds and hence by this allocation, in accordance with the statutory basis for the fund, the money is returned for use by the most needy of tenants, and for the homeless, and the potentially homeless, through public housing and through counselling assistance to support people to remain in housing.
(3) Public housing - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 5; Financial counselling - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 3a. (4) An amount of $5.5 million in 2001-02; $500 000 in each of 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06. (5) The interest earned from the rental accommodation fund is the interest earned on tenants’ bonds and hence by this allocation, in accordance with the statutory basis for the fund, the money is returned for use by the most needy of tenants, and for the homeless, and the potentially homeless, through public housing and through counselling assistance to support people to remain in housing.
(4) An amount of $5.5 million in 2001-02; $500 000 in each of 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06. (5) The interest earned from the rental accommodation fund is the interest earned on tenants’ bonds and hence by this allocation, in accordance with the statutory basis for the fund, the money is returned for use by the most needy of tenants, and for the homeless, and the potentially homeless, through public housing and through counselling assistance to support people to remain in housing.
(5) The interest earned from the rental accommodation fund is the interest earned on tenants’ bonds and hence by this allocation, in accordance with the statutory basis for the fund, the money is returned for use by the most needy of tenants, and for the homeless, and the potentially homeless, through public housing and through counselling assistance to support people to remain in housing.
HOMELESSNESS, FUNDING
Regarding the recent allocation of $32 million to tackle homelessness, I ask - (1) Is the proposed initiative to be funded from the rental accommodation fund? (2) If no to (1), what is the source of the funding? (3) If yes to (1), what provision of the Residential Tenancies Act 1987 enables the Government to use rental accommodation fund money for this purpose? (4) If yes to (1), how much of the rental assistance fund is being used for the proposed initiative? (5) If yes to (1), what is the reason that private tenants’ money is being used to fund government initiatives to address homelessness? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(2) Partly. An amount of $5 million is being provided in 2001-02 for public housing; $500 000 per annum is being provided from 2001-02 for additional financial counselling services to work with people who are at risk of becoming homeless through increasing debt. (3) Public housing - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 5; Financial counselling - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 3a. (4) An amount of $5.5 million in 2001-02; $500 000 in each of 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06. (5) The interest earned from the rental accommodation fund is the interest earned on tenants’ bonds and hence by this allocation, in accordance with the statutory basis for the fund, the money is returned for use by the most needy of tenants, and for the homeless, and the potentially homeless, through public housing and through counselling assistance to support people to remain in housing.
(1) Is the proposed initiative to be funded from the rental accommodation fund? (2) If no to (1), what is the source of the funding? (3) If yes to (1), what provision of the Residential Tenancies Act 1987 enables the Government to use rental accommodation fund money for this purpose? (4) If yes to (1), how much of the rental assistance fund is being used for the proposed initiative? (5) If yes to (1), what is the reason that private tenants’ money is being used to fund government initiatives to address homelessness? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(2) Partly. An amount of $5 million is being provided in 2001-02 for public housing; $500 000 per annum is being provided from 2001-02 for additional financial counselling services to work with people who are at risk of becoming homeless through increasing debt. (3) Public housing - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 5; Financial counselling - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 3a. (4) An amount of $5.5 million in 2001-02; $500 000 in each of 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06. (5) The interest earned from the rental accommodation fund is the interest earned on tenants’ bonds and hence by this allocation, in accordance with the statutory basis for the fund, the money is returned for use by the most needy of tenants, and for the homeless, and the potentially homeless, through public housing and through counselling assistance to support people to remain in housing.
(2) If no to (1), what is the source of the funding? (3) If yes to (1), what provision of the Residential Tenancies Act 1987 enables the Government to use rental accommodation fund money for this purpose? (4) If yes to (1), how much of the rental assistance fund is being used for the proposed initiative? (5) If yes to (1), what is the reason that private tenants’ money is being used to fund government initiatives to address homelessness? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(2) Partly. An amount of $5 million is being provided in 2001-02 for public housing; $500 000 per annum is being provided from 2001-02 for additional financial counselling services to work with people who are at risk of becoming homeless through increasing debt. (3) Public housing - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 5; Financial counselling - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 3a. (4) An amount of $5.5 million in 2001-02; $500 000 in each of 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06. (5) The interest earned from the rental accommodation fund is the interest earned on tenants’ bonds and hence by this allocation, in accordance with the statutory basis for the fund, the money is returned for use by the most needy of tenants, and for the homeless, and the potentially homeless, through public housing and through counselling assistance to support people to remain in housing.
(3) If yes to (1), what provision of the Residential Tenancies Act 1987 enables the Government to use rental accommodation fund money for this purpose? (4) If yes to (1), how much of the rental assistance fund is being used for the proposed initiative? (5) If yes to (1), what is the reason that private tenants’ money is being used to fund government initiatives to address homelessness? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(2) Partly. An amount of $5 million is being provided in 2001-02 for public housing; $500 000 per annum is being provided from 2001-02 for additional financial counselling services to work with people who are at risk of becoming homeless through increasing debt. (3) Public housing - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 5; Financial counselling - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 3a. (4) An amount of $5.5 million in 2001-02; $500 000 in each of 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06. (5) The interest earned from the rental accommodation fund is the interest earned on tenants’ bonds and hence by this allocation, in accordance with the statutory basis for the fund, the money is returned for use by the most needy of tenants, and for the homeless, and the potentially homeless, through public housing and through counselling assistance to support people to remain in housing.
(4) If yes to (1), how much of the rental assistance fund is being used for the proposed initiative? (5) If yes to (1), what is the reason that private tenants’ money is being used to fund government initiatives to address homelessness? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(2) Partly. An amount of $5 million is being provided in 2001-02 for public housing; $500 000 per annum is being provided from 2001-02 for additional financial counselling services to work with people who are at risk of becoming homeless through increasing debt. (3) Public housing - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 5; Financial counselling - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 3a. (4) An amount of $5.5 million in 2001-02; $500 000 in each of 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06. (5) The interest earned from the rental accommodation fund is the interest earned on tenants’ bonds and hence by this allocation, in accordance with the statutory basis for the fund, the money is returned for use by the most needy of tenants, and for the homeless, and the potentially homeless, through public housing and through counselling assistance to support people to remain in housing.
(5) If yes to (1), what is the reason that private tenants’ money is being used to fund government initiatives to address homelessness? Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(2) Partly. An amount of $5 million is being provided in 2001-02 for public housing; $500 000 per annum is being provided from 2001-02 for additional financial counselling services to work with people who are at risk of becoming homeless through increasing debt. (3) Public housing - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 5; Financial counselling - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 3a. (4) An amount of $5.5 million in 2001-02; $500 000 in each of 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06. (5) The interest earned from the rental accommodation fund is the interest earned on tenants’ bonds and hence by this allocation, in accordance with the statutory basis for the fund, the money is returned for use by the most needy of tenants, and for the homeless, and the potentially homeless, through public housing and through counselling assistance to support people to remain in housing.
Hon TOM STEPHENS replied: I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(2) Partly. An amount of $5 million is being provided in 2001-02 for public housing; $500 000 per annum is being provided from 2001-02 for additional financial counselling services to work with people who are at risk of becoming homeless through increasing debt. (3) Public housing - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 5; Financial counselling - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 3a. (4) An amount of $5.5 million in 2001-02; $500 000 in each of 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06. (5) The interest earned from the rental accommodation fund is the interest earned on tenants’ bonds and hence by this allocation, in accordance with the statutory basis for the fund, the money is returned for use by the most needy of tenants, and for the homeless, and the potentially homeless, through public housing and through counselling assistance to support people to remain in housing.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. (1)-(2) Partly. An amount of $5 million is being provided in 2001-02 for public housing; $500 000 per annum is being provided from 2001-02 for additional financial counselling services to work with people who are at risk of becoming homeless through increasing debt. (3) Public housing - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 5; Financial counselling - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 3a. (4) An amount of $5.5 million in 2001-02; $500 000 in each of 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06. (5) The interest earned from the rental accommodation fund is the interest earned on tenants’ bonds and hence by this allocation, in accordance with the statutory basis for the fund, the money is returned for use by the most needy of tenants, and for the homeless, and the potentially homeless, through public housing and through counselling assistance to support people to remain in housing.
(1)-(2) Partly. An amount of $5 million is being provided in 2001-02 for public housing; $500 000 per annum is being provided from 2001-02 for additional financial counselling services to work with people who are at risk of becoming homeless through increasing debt. (3) Public housing - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 5; Financial counselling - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 3a. (4) An amount of $5.5 million in 2001-02; $500 000 in each of 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06. (5) The interest earned from the rental accommodation fund is the interest earned on tenants’ bonds and hence by this allocation, in accordance with the statutory basis for the fund, the money is returned for use by the most needy of tenants, and for the homeless, and the potentially homeless, through public housing and through counselling assistance to support people to remain in housing.
(3) Public housing - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 5; Financial counselling - schedule 1, part A, clause 3, subclause 3a. (4) An amount of $5.5 million in 2001-02; $500 000 in each of 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06. (5) The interest earned from the rental accommodation fund is the interest earned on tenants’ bonds and hence by this allocation, in accordance with the statutory basis for the fund, the money is returned for use by the most needy of tenants, and for the homeless, and the potentially homeless, through public housing and through counselling assistance to support people to remain in housing.
(4) An amount of $5.5 million in 2001-02; $500 000 in each of 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06. (5) The interest earned from the rental accommodation fund is the interest earned on tenants’ bonds and hence by this allocation, in accordance with the statutory basis for the fund, the money is returned for use by the most needy of tenants, and for the homeless, and the potentially homeless, through public housing and through counselling assistance to support people to remain in housing.
(5) The interest earned from the rental accommodation fund is the interest earned on tenants’ bonds and hence by this allocation, in accordance with the statutory basis for the fund, the money is returned for use by the most needy of tenants, and for the homeless, and the potentially homeless, through public housing and through counselling assistance to support people to remain in housing.
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