Brunswick electorate
Tim READ (Brunswick) (14:48): (246) My question is for the Minister for Housing. I was recently contacted by Asena, a single parent with a disabled son, who lives in a one-bedroom public housing unit in Brunswick. But she and her son have been left stranded by the department and are staying in a motel at Asena’s expense. What was initially meant to be a few days work to fix a longstanding mould problem has become a major renovation with less than a week’s notice, requiring her to move everything out and put her furniture into storage, also at her expense. She will be out of the motel this Sunday with nowhere else to go. She and I have both repeatedly tried to contact the housing office and the minister’s office, to no avail. So my question for the minister is: will you swiftly provide suitable alternative accommodation and arrange compensation for this constituent during the renovation period?