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Ministerial Direction on Eligibility for Social Housing : Contents

Clause 4. Eligibility for social housing

Unofficial consolidated version of the Ministerial Direction on Eligibility for Social Housing
-- as at 4 September 2026

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Eligibility for social housing

4.1

For a person to be eligible to be allocated social housing he or she-

(a)

must meet the basic age and residency qualifications in clause 5; and

(b)

must meet the income and asset thresholds in clause 6, except as provided for in subclause 6.3; and

(c)

must have a housing need of a kind set out in clause 7.