Private rent assistance DSS 2009-10

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Set Specification
METEOR identifier:	385238
Registration status:	Housing assistance, Superseded 01/05/2013
DSS type:	Data Set Specification (DSS)
Scope:	Private rent assistance relates to the provision of financial assistance to enable households to access and maintain accommodation in the private rental market and includes: bond loans rental grants rental subsidies relocation expenses other assistance grants. The collection excludes non-financial assistance, for example, tenancy support services and tenancy guarantees.

Collection and usage attributes

Statistical unit:

Households

Guide for use:

Households receiving ongoing assistance should be counted once for the financial year only for each program type where assistance was provided—regardless of which financial year assistance commenced.

Collection methods:

Include:

All households who received private rent assistance during the 2009–10 financial year.

Exclude:

Households with outstanding monies to repay for assistance provided in a previous financial year, where no new assistance was provided for year ending 30 June 2010.

Jurisdictions are requested to provide details of all programs of private rent assistance (financial only) available to households during the 2009–10 reporting period. An Excel spreadsheet is provided for this purpose and includes the following fields:

name of program
description of program
eligibility criteria.

Implementation start date:

01/07/2009

Implementation end date:

30/06/2010

Comments:

As part of the 2009–10 HHIMG work program, redevelopment of the private rent assistance data collection was agreed to, in line with the new reporting requirements under the National Affordable Housing Agreement (NAHA). Subsequently, HHIMG members agreed to a unit record level collection for private rent assistance, and to the associated data items for collection and reporting for the 2009-10 financial year.