28ABCrisis and transitional housing projects—initial apportionment of funding

28AB Crisis and transitional housing projects—initial apportionment of funding

(1) Housing Australia must ensure, during the period starting on the day the Housing Australia Investment Mandate Amendment (2024 Measures No. 2) Direction 2024 commences (the commencement day) and ending 13 months after the commencement day, that it apportions funding for new social or affordable housing projects that are crisis and transitional housing projects on the basis of the State or Territory in which the new housing project would be located, as follows: (a) no more than $25 million may be payable for new housing projects in each of the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory and Tasmania; (b) no more than $925 million may be payable for new housing projects in all States (other than Tasmania), with funding for new housing projects in those States being apportioned on a per capita basis. (2) In determining the per capita basis of apportionment for the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), Housing Australia must have regard to National, state and territory population, published by the Australian Statistician for the September 2023 reference period.

Note: That publication could, in 2024, be viewed on the Australian Bureau of Statistics website (www.abs.gov.au).