An Act to establish the New South Wales Land and Housing Corporation in conjunction with the Department of Housing; to make provision for the exercise of certain functions relating to housing and land supply; and for other purposes.
This Act may be cited as the Housing Act 1985.
Sections 1, 2 and 24 and Schedule 1 shall commence on the date of assent to this Act.
Except as provided by subsection (1), this Act shall commence on 1 January 1986.
In this Act, except in so far as the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires:
In this Act:
(a) a reference to a function includes a reference to a power, authority and duty, and
(b) a reference to the exercise of a function includes, where the function is a duty, a reference to the performance of the duty.
The objects of this Act are:
(a) to maximise the opportunities for all people in New South Wales to have access to secure, appropriate and affordable housing,
(b) to ensure that housing opportunities and assistance are available to all sections of the community with housing needs,
(c) to ensure that public housing is developed as a viable and diversified form of housing choice,
(d) to ensure that public housing reflects general community housing standards and is designed to cater for the ongoing needs of consumers,
(e) to maximise the opportunities for tenants of public and community housing programmes to participate in the management of their housing and in the development of public and community housing policies,
(f) to promote orderly and economic urban development and the adequate supply of affordable and suitably located land for housing at the minimum practicable cost to consumers,
(g) to promote equity between levels of assistance provided to people living in public rental housing, private rental housing and those who own or are purchasing their homes,
(h) to maintain an efficient housing administration to ensure the effective co-ordination and provision of all housing services,
(i) to encourage social mix and the integration of different housing forms in existing and new communities,
(j) to encourage the planning and development of new urban areas as communities with a full range of appropriate services and facilities available in the shortest practicable time,
(k) to promote a viable and stable building and…