Gippsland East electorate
Mr T BULL (Gippsland East) (14:43): (6388) My constituency question is to the Minister for Housing, and the information I seek is: what is being done to address the chronic shortfall in housing support officers? I have a single mother in my electorate who has a week left on her rental property. She has applied for over 30 rental properties and has been unsuccessful and has nowhere to go. The government’s Department of Families, Fairness and Housing website lists Community Housing Limited in Bairnsdale as the contact for homelessness support in the area. Following this advice, she approached Community Housing Limited; however, she has been advised there is an eight-week wait to be assigned a housing support officer. This is symptomatic of the wider issues of those facing homelessness in my area, and I want to know what the government is doing in the short term to address the shortfall in supports for those facing homelessness as we enter the colder winter months.