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Community housing waiting list cluster

Data Set Specification Attributes

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Set Specification
METEOR identifier:Help on this term621938
Registration status:Help on this term

Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017

DSS type:Help on this termData Element Cluster
Scope:Help on this term

The scope of the Community housing waiting list cluster is waitlist applicants for Community housing tenancy (rental) units under management of a community housing organisation. This excludes applicants for units where the tenancy management function is managed under:

  • Public Rental Housing; or
  • Aboriginal Rental Housing Program state/territory owned and managed Indigenous housing.

Waitlist applicants are those households that have applied for rental housing and have been deemed eligible but have not received the assistance they applied for. This includes current housing tenants who are applicants for assistance different from what they currently receive.

In addition waitlist applicants are only in scope if the service provider organisation waitlist is not part of a consolidated jurisdiction waiting list. That is, it is conditional on the code value for Service provider organisation—common waitlist indicator, yes/no code N, being 2 (“No”).

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:Help on this term

The items in the Community housing waiting list cluster are used to ascertain the total number of:

  • applicants on a community housing waiting list
  • new applicants on a community housing waiting list
  • transfer applicants on a community housing waiting list
  • new applicants in greatest need on a community housing waiting list.

The data element Service provider organisation—waiting list, total households N[NNN] provides the total number of households on a service provider organisation’s record or list of applicants waiting for the provision of services.

This total number of households/applicants can be disaggregated using the other data elements in this cluster to provide the other required counts. The table below describes this:

 

Use of data elements to determine waiting list numbers
Total numberDetermination
Applicants on waiting listTotal households as defined in Service provider organisation—waiting list, total households N[NNN]
New applicants on waiting listTotal households as defined in Service provider organisation—waiting list, total households N[NNN] which have a code value for  Household—application type, housing assistance code N of CODE 1 (“New application”).
Transfer applicants on waiting listTotal households as defined in Service provider organisation—waiting list, total households N[NNN] minus new applicants on waiting list.
New applicants on waiting list in greatest needTotal households as defined in Service provider organisation—waiting list, total households N[NNN] which have a code value for  Household—application type, housing assistance code N of CODE 1 (“New application”) and which have a code value for Household—greatest need indicator, yes/no code N of CODE 1 (“Yes”).


 

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Steward:Help on this termAustralian Institute of Health and Welfare

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Supersedes Community housing waiting list cluster

        Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017

Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term
Service provider organisation cluster (Mainstream community housing)

        Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017


Metadata items in this Data Set Specification Help on this term

Seq No.Help on this termMetadata itemHelp on this termObligationHelp on this termMax occursHelp on this term
-Household—application type, housing assistance code NMandatory1
-Household—greatest need indicator, yes/no code NMandatory1
-Service provider organisation—waiting list, total households N[NNN]Mandatory3