Taskforce to Tackle Lengthening Public Housing Waiting List
Source: WA. Minister for Housing and Works. Media Release.
"A social housing taskforce is to be established to review the acute shortage of public housing in Western Australia and to come up with innovative strategies for addressing the problem. Housing and Works Minister Troy Buswell said the taskforce, to be chaired by Anglicare chief executive Ian Carter, would include representatives of community bodies, industry groups and local government. It would be asked to report to the Minister by June 30, 2009 on new ways to approach the provision of social housing in order to achieve an aspirational target of 20,000 additional dwellings by 2020."