Tuesday, 3 March 2026

 Anasina GRAY-BARBERIO (Northern Metropolitan) (12:52): My constituency question is for the Minister for Housing and Building. Minister, my constituent Hanan Ali of Craigieburn recently visited my office. She has lived in her two-storey Housing Choices townhouse since 2014, having moved in while pregnant with her second child. The property is overcrowded and highly unsuitable. The rooms are small. There is no proper shower, only a narrow bathtub, from which family members have fallen, and daily tasks are difficult, especially while caring for children, including one who requires extensive medical care. Over the years Hanan has developed chronic back pain from using the stairs. She has repeatedly requested a four-bedroom, single-storey home but has been asked to reapply for a special condition allocation. She reports:

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I am devastated and stressed. I can’t sleep at night, and it became a mental stress on top of my health issues.

Minister, will you take urgent steps to ensure Hanan and her family can access safe, adequate housing without repeated delays?