• Housing assistance, Superseded 01/05/2013

The purpose of the Public rental housing data set specification is to describe information about tenants in public rental housing covered by the National Affordable Housing Agreement (NAHA). Included are households residing in public rental housing dwellings where the dwelling is either:

• owned by the housing authority; or
• leased from the private sector or other housing program areas and used for provision of public rental housing.

Public rental housing dwellings leased to other program areas such as community housing or crisis and emergency accommodation programs are not included in this collection.

Dwellings no longer under the administration of the property manager/agency at June 30th 2011, (including dwellings demolished, sold or disposed of) and dwellings not yet available to the property manager/agency at June 30th 2011, (such as those still under construction or being purchased) are excluded.

Low income cut–off measures for low income households based on definition under NAHA.

State and territory housing authorities provide the data to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare for national collation on an annual basis.

Include:

• Dwellings headleased from private market or other programs and managed by the jurisdiction.

Exclude:

• Dwellings no longer under the administration of the property manager/agent at June 30th 2011.
• Dwellings not yet available to the property manager/agency at June 30th 2011, such as those still under construction or being purchased
• Dwellings owned but not administered by the jurisdiction (e.g. leased to other program areas and not administered by state housing authority).

Data qualifications:

• Bedsits are to be reported as 1 bedroom AND counted as 1 bedroom for performance indicator calculations
• Occupied dwellings can be tenantable or untenantable.

In the 2010-11 collection the following changes have been made to the data set specification:

• In the Dwelling history file: the data items VACRSN, VADCESC and VACTYPE have been retired and replaced by a new variable VAC_DDV which is populated with a standard set of vacancy reason codes.
• In the Person income file: the data items INC_TYPE and INC_DESC have been retired.