Canberra Times Editorial: encouraging signs in the housing sector

By The Canberra Times
Updated April 24 2018 - 11:04pm, first published January 30 2017 - 7:31pm

The Productivity Commission's 2017 report on government service provision in the housing and homelessness sector this month came with encouraging results for the ACT government: the waiting list for public housing in Canberra in 2016 dropped 17 per cent on the previous year. Improvements of this magnitude – not since 2012 has the list been this short – are generally celebrated with gusto. On this occasion, however, there was silence from the Barr government perhaps because on other key performance indicators, the PC report was not so flattering to the ACT.

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