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Sep 2024 23

Housing and Planning – Disability Accommodation

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I want to talk about specialist disability accommodation. In Tasmania we have a high proportion of people living with a disability: 26.8 versus 17 per cent elsewhere. There's significant demand, and I note that your dashboard says that 2735 Homes Tasmania tenants are living with a disability. The Housing Strategy Action Plan reports that as of April last year, 38 per cent of all applications on the housing register involve a person living with a disability, so we acknowledge that there's a significant need.

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Sep 2024 23

Housing and Planning – Aboriginal Housing

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I have some questions about Aboriginal housing, particularly on Cape Barren. The Budget holds a one-off payment to help the Cape Barren Island community plan the design, delivery and ongoing maintenance of municipal and essential services and housing. This is welcome and acknowledged, but there's nothing in the forward Estimates to actually deliver on what is planned, noting that housing is a significant constraint on Cape Barren Island in terms of Aboriginal people returning there to work or people wanting to return there with their families.

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Sep 2024 23

Housing and Planning – Homes Tasmania Debt

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I want to go back to debt. Last year's annual report showed that there was borrowings with TASCORP of a bit over $60 million. The budget papers have got it rising to $230 million and in just a few years it's going to be a pretty staggering $720 million. That will cost Homes Tas $40 million just to service interest payments when we go out there. You mentioned earlier the Homes Tas borrowing limit of $266 million. Has that been raised?

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Sep 2024 23

Housing and Planning – Macquarie Point Precinct

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Minister, the MacPoint precinct plan has a residential development zone, as we all know, at Regatta Point and the development and the $240 million from the federal government that's not GST exempt is actually conditional on building affordable homes on the site. The precinct plan is clear on the fact that the housing there would be a mixture of Homes Tasmania and Health department affordable housing for health workers and apartments for release on the market. Can you confirm if any of the $240 million from the federal money has been set aside to invest in this residential development?

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Sep 2024 10

Infrastructure Spending – Comments made by the Premier

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Honourable Speaker, this morning in question time, the Premier referred to comments I made regarding planned infrastructure spending in the upcoming state budget. He described me and, through me, the Greens, as being anti-school buildings, anti-roads and anti upgrading hospitals. I want to take this opportunity to correct the record.

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Aug 2024 8

Housing

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I want to acknowledge that housing is a fundamental human right for a person to have safe, secure and long-term prospects for accommodation.

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