Metadata for the Breaking disadvantage with social housing assistance

• Under occupancy rate for public housing
• Social housing residential properties as at 30 June
• Social housing residential dwellings by bedroom type as at 30 June

Measure – Under occupancy rate for public housing

Description

This refers to the total number of tenancies exceeding their tenant allocation requirements by two or more bedrooms as at 30 June as a percentage of the total number of public housing tenancies as at 30 June.

Under-occupancy is where the number of bedrooms exceeds the tenant’s allocation requirement by two or more bedrooms.

Publisher

NSW Department of Communities and Justice

Numerator

The total number of public tenancies exceeding their tenant allocation requirements by two or more bedrooms as at 30 June.

Denominator

The total number of public housing tenancies as at 30 June.

Data Filter

• Financial year

Data Limitation

The data published by the Productivity Commission for public housing dwellings is not directly comparable with that by DCJ due to different counting rules.

Data Source

Report on Government Services (ROGS) - Table 18A.32

Measure – Social housing residential properties as at 30 June

Description

This refers to the total number of residential properties in Public housing, Aboriginal Housing Office, Indigenous community housing and Community housing as at 30 June.

Social housing residential dwellings are rental housing dwellings provided for people on very low incomes. They include the following:

• Public housing residential dwellings – This refers to the residential dwellings owned by the NSW land and Housing Corporation and managed by DCJ
• Aboriginal Housing Office residential dwellings – This refers to the Aboriginal Housing Office residential dwellings managed by DCJ
• Indigenous community housing residential dwellings – This refers to the Aboriginal community housing residential dwellings managed by Aboriginal community housing providers. The term 'Indigenous Community Housing' or (ICH) is used in national reporting.
• Community housing residential dwellings – This refers to the residential dwellings contracted by DCJ to be managed by community housing providers

The social housing residential dwellings count includes:

• Crisis accommodation dwellings,
• Affordable housing properties owned by DCJ and leased to community housing providers,
• Affordable housing properties leveraged by non-government providers under the asset ownership vesting arrangements, and
• Affordable housing properties delivered through the Social and Affordable Housing Fund.

It excludes land and non-residential assets owned and managed by DCJ and non-rentable residential assets at 30 June each year.

It is important to note that due to different counting rules the figure published in ASR for social housing residential dwellings may differ from other government agencies’ published figure even if the same term of “social housing residential dwellings” has been stated.

Publisher

NSW Department of Communities and Justice

Numerator

Not applicable

Denominator

Not applicable

Data Filter

• Financial year end

Data Limitation

Nil

Data Source

HOMES - Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)

Measure – Social housing residential dwellings by bedroom type as at 30 June

Description

This refers to number of social housing dwellings by bedroom type (studio/one bedroom, two bedrooms, three bedrooms, and four bedrooms and more)  as at 30 June.

Publisher

NSW Department of Communities and Justice

Numerator

Not applicable

Denominator

Not applicable

Data Filters

• Financial year end
• District

Data Limitation

Nil

Data Source

HOMES - Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW)

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