House of Assembly Fifty-First Parliament, Second Session (51-2) 51 2 Parliament of South Australia House of Assembly published Answers to Questions Government Employee Housing GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE HOUSING In reply to Mr GRIFFITHS House of Assembly Goyder GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE HOUSING In reply to Mr GRIFFITHS (Goyder) (28 June 2007) (Estimates Committee B). The Hon. M.J. WRIGHT House of Assembly Lee Minister for Industrial Relations Minister for Finance Minister for Government Enterprises Minister for Recreation GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE HOUSING The Hon. M.J. WRIGHT (Lee—Minister for Industrial Relations, Minister for Finance, Minister for Government Enterprises, Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing): The performance indicators for Government employee residential property management are shown in Budget Paper 4 volume 2, page 6.49, subprogram 8.5. Amongst these indicators is a target of 2,650 residential tenancies managed for 2007-08. The point to be clarified is the difference in meaning between 'tenancies' and 'properties'. A tenancy is established each time a property is occupied by an incoming tenant. The total number of tenancies managed in any year includes instances where a number of different tenants may occupy the same property, either owned or leased, during the financial year. I am advised that typically there is approximately a 40 per cent turnover of tenants across the whole housing stock as a result of existing employment contracts terminating and new contracts commencing during the year. This results in more tenancy agreements being established each year than the number of owned and leased properties.