Contribution to Government ambitions

The Queensland Government has framed its 2020 vision for Queensland around five ambitions that address current and future challenges. Each of these ambitions contain long-term targets that identify what the Government wants to achieve by 2020. The targets do not attempt to cover every area of Government activity or community need. Many important issues, such as Indigenous disadvantage, housing and disability services are recognised as being addressed separately through reforms at both a state and national level. Despite this, the former Department of Housing was recognised as making a contribution to all five of the Queensland Government ambitions to help deliver a stronger, greener, smarter, healthier and fairer Queensland.

The department's five outputs contributed to the achievement of the Queensland Government ambitions, not only through the direct provision of housing assistance and services, but also by working with, and influencing, the broader housing system.

The department's outputs, from 1 July 2008 to 26 March 2009, were:

• Social Rental Housing - providing secure and affordable rental housing for low-to-moderate income families and individuals, in particular, those who have difficulties in the private market.
• Indigenous Community Housing - providing appropriate housing in regional and remote Indigenous communities.
• Crisis Housing - providing assistance to people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
• Private Market Assistance - providing products and services to improve options for people with housing needs that can be met in the private rental and home purchase markets.
• Community Renewal - brokering integrated Queensland Government responses to complex and interrelated community issues in selected areas of the State.

The department's goals, from 1 July 2008 to 26 March 2009, were:

• we will deliver integrated social housing and housing services to low-income households for the duration of their need
• we will provide support for low-to-moderate income households in the private market
• we will help build sustainable communities.