Council housing demand high

Press, 2 May 1984, Page 7

Council housing demand high

Almost 1000 applications are on the Christchurch City Council’s waiting list for public rental accommodation.

A further 354 applications are on the elderly persons’ housing waiting list. Since the beginning of January, 21 allocations* of public rental accommodation have been made and 270 applications received.

Of the 21 placements, 10 were married couples with no children; three were couples, with children; three, solo parents; three, single

men; and two, single women.

Twelve of the allocations were for units in the new Brougham Village. Without the new units only nine vacancies had occurred in council accommodation which seriously hampered attempts to meet the demand, councillors were told at a community services and health committee meeting yesterday. The remaining units were handed over to the council on April 16. They are now being let.

Fifty-nine allocations for elderly persons’ housing have been made this year from 70 applications. Most were from single women. The council has 1487 units for the elderly, with no vacancies.

The 1984-85 capital works programme, submitted to the Housing Corporation last December, will add 25 units. Twenty of these will be in a new development in Richmond’s Avalon and Perth Streets, and five will be in Nayland Street,

Sumner. Sixteen other units will be remodelled at Willard Street, Spreydon, and 10 each at Coles Place, St Albans, and Andrews Crescent, Spreydon.

A further 15 units on the works list sent to the Housing Corporation have been postponed because funds were not allocated. The allocations for the programme still have to be confirmed in writing by the corporation.