Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Community Services) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

On 20 June 2007, Senator Humphries asked me about housing affordability and the loss of housing stock in both the Australian Capital Territory and nationally. The figures for housing stock reduction in the ACT given in my answer were correct for the period up to 2005, not since 2005. The Australian government’s draft independent audit of government contributions to housing assistance showed that there were 637 fewer social housing dwellings funded under the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement in the Australian Capital Territory between the periods 1996-97 and 2004-05. The report also showed that, nationally, there was a loss of 13 dwellings for the same period. I would like the record to reflect these facts.