Here's the Homefind trick - if there aren't any properties available at your entitlement, get them to unlock the next layer up. Our last house was such a huge improvement on anything we'd ever had before that I suspect it was actually a higher entitlement house (but we only paid the standard rent on it). That was in the ACT where the housing was allegedly tight - but there are always more houses. The fact that they can "keep housing stock aside" in anticipate of larger movements of people tells you that a lot of houses aren't being listed.