Home purchase assistance DSS 2012-13

Identifying and definitional attributes

• Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017

Home purchase assistance for the purpose of this collection relates to the provision of financial assistance to households to improve their access to home ownership.

Includes:

• direct lending (including government loans, shared equity loans and bridging loans)
• deposit assistance
• interest rate assistance
• mortgage relief
• other assistance grants.

Excludes:

• non-financial assistance, e.g. home purchase advisory and counselling services
• home renovation/maintenance services
• sale to tenant programs
• any assistance that does not directly facilitate the purchase of a home
• relocation or start up assistance
• the provision of housing or any share of it
• any expense incurred in providing assistance to a household that is not the value of financial assistance received directly by the household; and
• any aspect of a shared equity loan that is not direct lending, deposit assistance, interest rate assistance or mortgage relief.

Any household that had monies outstanding on repayable home purchase assistance provided in a previous period at the commencement of the 2012-13 financial year are within the scope of this collection.

Any households that received transfers of home purchase assistance in the 2012-13 financial year are within the scope of this collection. 

Households that received transfers of home purchase assistance in the 2012-13 financial year are those that commenced receiving home purchase assistance in the 2012-13 financial year and those that commenced receiving ongoing home purchase assistance in a previous financial year and continued to receive that assistance in the 2012-13 financial year.

Collection and usage attributes

Include:

• households that received transfers of assistance in the 2012-13 financial year
• household that had monies outstanding on repayable assistance provided in a previous period at the commencement of the 2012-13 financial year.

Include:

The value of assistance provided to a household during the 2012–13 financial year for:

• all households who commenced receiving assistance for the year ending 30 June 2013 regardless of the form of assistance (i.e. whether assistance is one-off, ongoing, repayable or non-repayable)
• all households who commenced receiving an ongoing form of assistance in a previous financial year (i.e. prior to 1 July 2012) and they continued to receive this assistance from 1 July 2012.

Exclude:

• Related administrative and operational costs associated with providing the home purchase assistance
• The value of assistance provided to a household prior to 1 July 2012 (i.e. for households continuing to receive ongoing forms of assistance that commenced prior to 1 July 2012)
• The value of outstanding repayable monies where a repayable form of assistance was provided prior to 1 July 2012 and outstanding monies had not been repaid by 30 June 2012 (i.e. report HPA_TYPE, HPA_PAYMENT and HPA_DATE but do not report HPA_AMOUNT).
• Relocation or start up assistance
• The provision of housing or any share of it
• Any expense incurred in providing assistance to a household that is not the value of financial assistance received directly by the household; and
• Any aspect of a shared equity loan that is not direct lending, deposit assistance, interest rate assistance or mortgage relief.
  

Data qualifications:

• For those households who commenced receiving assistance in a previous financial year (i.e. prior to 1 July 2012) and they continued to receive this assistance, include only the value of assistance provided for the year ending 30 June 2013 (i.e. disregard the value of assistance provided prior to 1 July 2012)
• For those households who commenced receiving assistance in a previous financial year (i.e. prior to 1 July 2012) and they continued to receive this assistance, report the originating date of the assistance (i.e. the date the household first received the assistance)
• A separate record should be provided for each type of assistance provided to a household
• 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
• The main applicant identifier should be the same person identifier that is used by the social housing authority across different housing programs. This field may be used to link home purchase assistance records with corresponding public rental housing, state owned and managed Indigenous housing, and/or private rent assistance records. If no such identifier exists, this field should be left blank.

Jurisdictions are requested to provide details of all programs of home purchase assistance (financial only) available to households during the 2012-13 reporting period, excluding those specified as outside the scope of the collection, i.e. home renovation/maintenance services and sale to tenant programs. An Excel spreadsheet is provided for this purpose and includes the following fields:

• name of program
• description of program
• eligibility criteria.

Source and reference attributes

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Home purchase assistance data collection 2012-13, data manual.

Relational attributes