Ms SCRYMGOUR - 2012-05-01
Can you please inform the House how Budget 2012-13 is supporting Territory families with continued investment in housing?
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for her question. As a government, we make no apologies whatsoever for investing in gearing up for growth, for investing in supporting Territory families, and land release is one of those. In Budget 2012-13, there is $16m for headworks for the new suburbs of Zuccoli and Johnston. There are 1400 new lots in Zuccoli and 490 new lots in Johnston. In Alice Springs, there is $3.5m to continue developing the suburb of Kilgariff, containing 1200 residential lots in total.
We have also made a commitment that 15% of our land releases will be for social and affordable housing. In that context, we have supported the formation of Venture Housing, an affordable rental housing company in the Territory. As the Treasurer alluded to in her speech earlier today, 35 units at Wirrina are coming on-stream in just a month or so.
We are also investing $50m in 140 affordable units, with rental properties in Johnston, Zuccoli and Maluka Drive, to be rented at 20% below the market value.
Since 2004, there has been a continuation of our support for HOMESTART NT. Fifteen hundred low- to middle-income earners are gaining a foothold in the market, gaining a place to live in the Northern Territory. It is a very reasonable approach to take to continue to support this. We have revised the purchase limits for Katherine and Tennant Creek; they are up by $30 000 and $15 000 respectively. We have concessions on stamp duty, but what do we have opposite? The member for Brennan made a public statement saying they would scrap any programs which support Territory families in accessing the housing market in such a fashion. It will be interesting to hear the Leader of the Opposition tomorrow and what he puts forward in his budget speech.
There is $60m for urban public housing, including $22m set aside to repair and refurbish dwellings; $6.3m to build new Territory housing properties; and $10.6m, jointly funded with the Commonwealth government, to build new properties for families who are homeless and facing homelessness.
I could go on. The National Partnership on Remote Indigenous Housing is certainly entering new phases. This government will continue to invest with the Commonwealth and support the Commonwealth in that.
Madam Speaker, we are poised for massive growth and expansion. We are a government that is supporting families and the economy, and we make no apologies for going into deficit to do so.
ANSWER
Madam Speaker, I thank the member for her question. As a government, we make no apologies whatsoever for investing in gearing up for growth, for investing in supporting Territory families, and land release is one of those. In Budget 2012-13, there is $16m for headworks for the new suburbs of Zuccoli and Johnston. There are 1400 new lots in Zuccoli and 490 new lots in Johnston. In Alice Springs, there is $3.5m to continue developing the suburb of Kilgariff, containing 1200 residential lots in total.
We have also made a commitment that 15% of our land releases will be for social and affordable housing. In that context, we have supported the formation of Venture Housing, an affordable rental housing company in the Territory. As the Treasurer alluded to in her speech earlier today, 35 units at Wirrina are coming on-stream in just a month or so.
We are also investing $50m in 140 affordable units, with rental properties in Johnston, Zuccoli and Maluka Drive, to be rented at 20% below the market value.
Since 2004, there has been a continuation of our support for HOMESTART NT. Fifteen hundred low- to middle-income earners are gaining a foothold in the market, gaining a place to live in the Northern Territory. It is a very reasonable approach to take to continue to support this. We have revised the purchase limits for Katherine and Tennant Creek; they are up by $30 000 and $15 000 respectively. We have concessions on stamp duty, but what do we have opposite? The member for Brennan made a public statement saying they would scrap any programs which support Territory families in accessing the housing market in such a fashion. It will be interesting to hear the Leader of the Opposition tomorrow and what he puts forward in his budget speech.
There is $60m for urban public housing, including $22m set aside to repair and refurbish dwellings; $6.3m to build new Territory housing properties; and $10.6m, jointly funded with the Commonwealth government, to build new properties for families who are homeless and facing homelessness.
I could go on. The National Partnership on Remote Indigenous Housing is certainly entering new phases. This government will continue to invest with the Commonwealth and support the Commonwealth in that.
Madam Speaker, we are poised for massive growth and expansion. We are a government that is supporting families and the economy, and we make no apologies for going into deficit to do so.
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