Form 7 - Application For Housing Assistance

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FORM 7
Rental Application No.
Housing Act 2003
Application for housing assistance pursuant to
Section 26A of the Housing Regulation 2003
A range of housing assistance is provided by the Department of Housing and Public Works to eligible Queenslanders for
the duration of their housing need. The types of housing assistance available include departmentally-managed housing,
long term community housing and Indigenous Council community housing on discrete Indigenous communities.
How to apply for housing assistance:
You can apply
in the following
ways:
contact your nearest
Housing Service Centre
to arrange an appointment to discuss your eligibility and housing needs. At the
interview, you will complete and sign an Application for Housing Assistance form.
Housing Service Centre staff will advise
which documents you need to bring to the interview, for example, proof of
identification forms, evidence of your household’s
income
and assets,
citizenship or residency, and any specific housing needs, etc.
OR
complete this application form and send it to your nearest
Housing Service
Centre. The department will contact you to
arrange an appointment to discuss your application.
OR
apply through community housing providers who will then send the application to the department on your behalf.
OR
If you are living on one of the 34 discrete Indigenous communities and you are applying to live on the same Indigenous
community in Indigenous Council community housing, you can contact your Council housing officer or your nearest Housing
Service Centre to discuss lodging an application.
Important information
Your
Lodgement of an application for housing assistance is not a guarantee that the department will be able to assist you.
eligibility,
level of housing need and the type of housing assistance you are eligible for will be assessed based on
the information you provide at the interview and / or in this application form.
You must be eligible for housing assistance when you apply and continue to be eligible until being offered assistance
Fact sheets on housing assistance are available from any
Housing Service Centre
or from the department’s website
at:
If you wish to complete this application form:
Read all the questions carefully and complete this application in
full.
Write in block letters (for example: JOHN
SMITH).
Show your answer with a tick, where there are Yes/No boxes (for example
).
Attach any supporting documentation if required. Provide proof of income and assets for each person with an independent
income, for example, Centrelink Income Statement, Employers Declaration,
etc.
Sign the declaration and bring in necessary identification with this application form or have necessary identification signed by
a witness if you are mailing this application
form.
Have this application form sighted and signed by an appropriate
witness.
Version 6 November 2012
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