Dear Miss Anonymous

I refer to your below email of 31 July 2024, in which you enquire about information held by Homes Tasmania.

In your email you make the following enquiry, "According to housing dashboard: Approximately 90 per cent of all applicants on the Housing Register are currently in secure or temporary accommodation. Is there document or spreadsheet available that sets out the aggregate / total number separately who are in a) secure long term permanent and b) temporary short term accomidation?"

In accordance with s13(8) Right to Information Act 2009 (Tas) (the Act), I confirm that Homes Tasmania holds information on the number of Housing Register applicants who are in secure accommodation and temporary accommodation.

In relation to your additional question, "Also is there aggregated expenditure between the two available that delineates between the two sets?", this question is unclear. However, in accordance with accordance with s13(8) of the Act, I confirm that Home Tasmania does not have any financial data on expenditure for Housing Register applicants.

If you wish to make application to Homes Tasmania to access information in accordance with the Act, I encourage you to complete the Homes Tasmania Right to Information application form, which I have attached for your use.

I note that s13(3) of the Act requires that applications contain minimum information, which is set out in regulation 5 of the Right to Information Regulations 2021 (Tas) as follows:

Minimum information to be contained in application for assessed disclosure
For the purposes of section 13(3) of the Act, the following information is prescribed as the minimum information that must be contained in an application for assessed disclosure of information under that section:
(a) the name of the applicant;
(b) a postal address, or email address, for the applicant, to be used for communication on matters relating to the application;
(c) the contact details of the applicant where the applicant may be contacted during ordinary business hours;
(d) the general subject matter of the application;
(e) details of the information sought by the applicant under the application, including all relevant dates and time periods that may relate to the information being sought, if known by the applicant;
(f) details of efforts undertaken by the applicant, if any, before the application was made, to obtain from publicly available sources the information sought;
(g) the date on which the application was signed by the applicant;
(h) if the application includes a request for personal information of the applicant, proof of identity of the applicant.

I also note that any application must also be accompanied with payment of the application fee which is $46.75. You may seek a waiver of the fee on the basis of impecuniosity, if you a Member of Parliament or journalist acting in connection with your duties, or if you are able to show that you intend to use the information for a purpose that is of general public interest or benefit. In all cases, we will require evidence to support your request for a waiver of the application fee.

Kind regards

Courtney Collins (she/her)
Principal Consultant, Governance Services, Office of the CEO
Homes Tasmania

homestasmania.com.au

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