A person who lives in affordable housing provided by the government.
better-off state tenants can expect to be moved out of their state houses under the next government
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The aim is to give the state tenants a guarantee against uncertain enhancements of rent, and against taxation of improvements.
The new system will give state tenants on market rents a financial incentive to get out voluntarily.
State tenants are now benefiting from an income-related rent, saving households up to $60 a week.
As a result of the Government cramming more and more State tenants into an area where there is a marked imbalance between private and State housing, it is inevitable that social dislocations will occur.
Why would the Minister not allow State tenants to buy their homes, recirculate that capital, and get the waiting list down?
Redevelopments are occurring when state tenants already face tenancy reviews replacing the old policy of "a house for life".
I absolutely agree that a State housing agency should be looking after State tenants.
Buyers might not want to spend up to $700,000 to find state tenant neighbours.
Successive Ministers of Housing had wanted the income that any state tenant received from boarders to be counted as income in terms of calculating entitlements.
The Prime Minister has ruled out returning state tenants to full market rents as under the previous National Government in the 1990s.