Question – Rapid Rehousing Program

Questions asked by the Hon Meg Webb MLC on 5 September 2022 and answered by the Minister for State Development, Construction and Housing on 8 September 2022.  

In regards to each of the Rapid Re-Housing Programs (Family Violence, Mental Health and Prisoner), and in each of the past five years:

Question 1: How many households have exited the program?

Answer 1: Family Violence 173; Prisoner 29; Mental Health 8

Question 2: Of the households that exited the program, how many were:

a) Single person household;
b) Couple household; and
c) Family with children household.

Answer 2:

a) Family Violence 24; Prisoner 29; Mental Health 7
b) Nil
c) Family Violence 149; Prisoner 0; Mental Health 1

Question 3: Of the households that exited the program, how many exited into:

a) A private rental tenancy
b) Public or social housing tenancy
c) A crisis shelter or temporary/transition accommodation tenancy
d) Homelessness

Answer 3:

a) Family Violence 23; Prisoner 1; Mental Health 0
b) Family Violence 105; Prisoner 9; Mental Health 4
c) Family Violence 3; Prisoner 0; Mental Health 1
d) Nil, however the Department does not have the details where support workers and/or a tenant does not provide details (see Abandoned/Unknown statistics below)

Question 4: Of the households that exited the program:

a) How many were evicted from their Rapid Rehousing tenancy?
b) Of those households that were evicted, please provide the reasons for eviction pursuant to section 42 of the Residential Tenancy Act 1997 and the number of evictions correlating to each reason

Answer 4: 

a) Three households were evicted from Rapid Rehousing tenancies.
b) One household was evicted for rent arrears and two for property damage.

Question 5: Of the households that exited the program, how many have:

a) Re-entered the Rapid Rehousing program at a later date as repeat tenant?
b) Applied or sought to re-enter the Rapid Rehousing program at a later date but have not been provided with a tenancy?

Answer 5: 

a) Nil across Programs that the Department are aware of, however not all tenant details (names) are provided with leases due to the sensitive nature of the tenants
b) Nil across Programs that the Department are aware of, however tenant Support Workers and Housing Connect are the agencies that manage tenants and their application. As in 5.1 there may have been repeat tenants however not all tenant details (names) are provided with leases due to the sensitive nature of the tenants.

Question resubmitted to Parliament, requesting disaggregated data

Answer: Unfortunately, the data provided in the previous answer is not able to be disaggregated by year because of historic data quality issues.

The issues include that the rapid rehousing program rents properties that are privately owned and therefore, the Government is restricted on what data it can enter into our existing systems. Work is underway to address this in both the medium and long term, but it will not resolve the historic issues.

We can not add any additional context to the answer provided previously.

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