There's been a lot in the WA Press about McGowan's inability to make bad decisions, then when he does they are the wrong ones, or bad ones.
As WA's public housing waitlist ballooned, department spent a fraction of funds, report finds
Across a nine-month period when WA was suffering from public housing and affordable rental shortages, just 2 per cent of the budget allocated to build new social housing and refurbish existing ones was spent, a report has found.
The Department of Communities had a COVID-19 stimulus budget of $319 million to spend on social housing initiatives between July last year and March this year, but spent $6.42 million, according to the WA Auditor-General's report.
Of that total amount, the department was allocated $97 million to spend on the construction of up to 250 social housing dwellings, as well as purchasing off-the-plan units for a supported housing program.
It spent just over $500,000, or less than 1 per cent.
The budget for refurbishing 1,500 existing social houses was $142 million, of which $2.8 million or 2 per cent was spent.There was also $80 million allocated to maintaining 3,800 regional social houses, including in remote Aboriginal communities, but only 4 per cent was spent, equalling about $3.1 million.
This was during a period when more than 15,000 people were on the public housing waitlist and the average wait time for public housing was roughly two years.
The rest here;
As WA's public housing waitlist ballooned, department spent a fraction of funds, report finds - ABC News
