Shire/community/commission housing

[~clover~]

Isn't that just housing commision? My neighbour pays the same as me with 2 kids & it hasn't changed since she started working?

[Miss_Dee]

Community housing should be the same. It's possible that what she is paying is the market rent for her property which is why it hasn't changed. I'd call them tomorrow and ask them to explain how they work out the rent, just in case it's not 25%, and what the market rent for your property is.

[~clover~]

Ok. I might do that. None of it sounds quite right to me. Whe I called them about it, I was told I'd be paying $118/week. Thats all they told me. It wasn't til I was in & signing the lease that I found out it was actually $195 & they'd just taken my rent assistance amount off that. I thought I wouldn't be getting rent assisstance, as it is with commission housing.
I guess I'm still paying the same I expected to pay, but I could get rent assisstance on a house for $150 too. I've moved from the mid north coast of NSW & that would be market value in the smaller towns there, where you're less than 20 minutes away from doctors, hospitals, dentists, daycare etc.