00:00The state government overhauling what it says is a broken social housing system.
00:08The restoration of fairness.
00:10From July, Queenslanders living in public housing will be subject to annual rent reviews.
00:1545% of our social housing tenants across Queensland have not provided us with current information about their income, their assets, their eligibility.
00:27The crackdown comes amid claims a couple in Brisbane are paying less than $200 a week in rent, despite taking home $200,000 a year.
00:37While in Townsville, a family with an annual income of $160,000 has a weekly rent of almost $190.
00:46What isn't up for review are social housing income limits last changed almost 20 years ago.
00:52The eligibility is what it is and that hasn't been touched by any government of any colour for many, many years, but that's what it is.
01:00Currently a single person earning more than $32,000 a year or a couple with two children who make more than $52,000 combined is ineligible.
01:10By applying the existing eligibility criteria so brutally, we are going to see more and more Queenslanders who frankly don't have a place to live.
01:23Bruceburn house prices in 2006 were $339,000. They're now around a million dollars.
01:29And yet Sam O'Connor is saying social housing tenants should be treated in the same way.
01:34The government says people found in breach of income limits will be given four months to find a new home.
01:40It says that will make space for the 52,000 people who are eligible currently on the waitlist.
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