The ACT government is embarking on a renewal of several aged public housing developments to renew and increase the stock level.
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Community Services Directorate projections show an increase in demand for public housing of 17.7 per cent from 2010 to 2020.
Mapping data on the location of the territory’s stock of public housing over the past two decades shows the spread to newer suburbs.
The changing distribution of the territory's public housing stock will continue as ageing accommodation continues to be redeveloped into the future.
ACT Housing has completed several redevelopments of public housing complexes in the past including Macpherson Court in O’Connor, Condamine Street in Turner and Lachlan Circuit in Barton.
More recently the notorious Burnie Court flats and the Fraser Court site were also redeveloped.
As forecast under the Public Housing Asset Management Strategy for 2012-2017, the Bega and Allaway Court and Currong Apartments in Braddon and Reid, the Northbourne Flats in Braddon and Turner and the Northbourne Housing Precinct in Dickson and Lyneham will all be redeveloped.
The ACT government also recently announced the redevelopment of a further four multi-unit public housing sites – Stuart Flats in Griffith, Gowrie Court in Narrabundah, Strathgordon Court in Woden and the Red Hill Flats.
The Community Services Directorate is also working with the Land Development Agency to have access to plans before the land is released in order to select the most cost-effective sites to develop.
In the past the directorate had purchased parcels of land in Dunlop and the new Gungahlin suburbs for housing for specific cohorts of tenants.
The executive director David Collett said the government was also investigating working with the private sector to deliver projects such as in private public partnerships.
