2017-04-11 P&E Agenda Attachment 1 to Item 1 Housing Needs Assessment

Table 12. Homelessness Category for Households in Public Housing (at time of allocation),
By Locality, Noosa Shire, 2015

Postcode and                          Homeless Category           Unavailable   Unspecified        Total
Suburbs
                                 A           B            C

4563 Cooroy and                   1                                   1             52              54
Surrounds

4565 Tewantin and                 3          3            1           3            184              194
Northern Coast

4566 Munna Pt/                    2                                   2             29              33
Noosaville

4567 Noosa Heads                                          1           3             88              92
and Southern Coast

4569 Cooran                                                           5                              5

4573 Marcus                       2                                                 3                5
Beach/Peregian
Beach

Total                            8           3            2           14           356              383

Notes: A = Homeless Category A; B = Homeless Category B; C = Homeless Category C; Unavailable = data
unavailable for reasons of confidentiality.
Category A is PRIMARY HOMELESSNESS
People without conventional accommodation such as people living on the streets, sleeping in derelict buildings,
or using cars for temporary shelter.
Category B is SECONDARY HOMELESSNESS
People who move frequently from one form of temporary shelter to another. This category covers people
accommodated in homeless services, people residing temporarily with family and friends and those using
rooming/boarding houses on an occasional basis.
Category C is TERTIARY HOMELESSNESS
People who live in boarding/rooming houses on a medium to long term basis. This type of accommodation
typically does not have self-contained rooms and residents share bathroom and kitchen facilities. Rooming
house residents do not have the security of tenure provided by a lease.
Source: Noosa Shire Council 2016a (Department of Communities Data)

Almost 50% of households residing in public housing had started their tenancy in the preceding
10 year period of 2006-2015, and a further 37% of households had started their tenancy in the
period of 1996-2005 (Table 13).

Table 13. Tenancy Start Date, Public Housing, Noosa Shire, 2015

Tenancy Start            Total               Households with
Date                   Households             any member
                                            having a disability

1976-1985                    2                      1

1986-1995                    49                     18

1996-2005                   144                     59

2006-2015                   188                    129

Total                       383                    207

Source: Noosa Shire Council 2016a (Department of Communities Data);




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