Statistics
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In 2005/06 Tenants Advice Service:
- Responded to 1,891 direct tenant telephone advice inquiries
- Responded to 544 community worker calls
- Trained 429 community workers and 172 consumers in matters
related to tenancy law
- Distributed 21,758 TAS publications
- Published 12 tenancy columns in 'The West Australian' newspaper
In Western Australia:
- Median rents in Perth have increased from $189 per week in June
2005 to $250 in September 2006.
- REIWA estimates that rents will increase 20% by the end of 2007
- if you are paying $250 in January 2007, by Christmas 2007 you
will be paying $300.
- According to REIWA (March 2007), the vacancy rates in the metropolitan
area has plummeted to just 1%. The previous lowest level was 1.2%
back in 1986.
- In December 2006 the median house price in Perth was $444,900
- Perth has overtaken Sydney as the least affordable city in Australia
(HIA).
- First-home owners in Perth needed to spend the highest percentage
of their income on mortgage repayments at 36.4%, compared with
36% for buyers in Sydney and 31.3% in Brisbane (December 2007,
HIA).
- Ongoing decline in State and Federal funding for public housing
has led to a continued reduction in housing stock across WA -
in 1995/96 public housing accounted for 6% of housing stock in
WA but by 2004/05 this had fallen to 4.2%.
- Homeswest has seen its priority waiting list increase from 256
a year ago to the current 470 (January 2007).
- In 2005 some 85,122 low income households received Commonwealth
Rent Assistance to help meet rental costs but nearly one third
remained in housing stress after receiving this assistance.
- Commonwealth Rent Assistance has risen 8.1% in three years whilst
median rents in Perth have risen 33.3%.
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