Hun, the housing classification policy isnt worth the paper its written on.
We were in a tiny 3 bedroom Townhouse not much bigger than your house with THREE small children in Sydney. We moved up here and with a short email about our reasoning for why we should have a 4 bedroom, voila! I think its grossly unfair that a) each DHA seems to do their own thing and b) that you are essentially penalised for gender and age of your children, which is not always something you have control over.
The quals for having a bedroom for each child is if they are over 4 or more years apart or opposite gender. Or if your a Sargent or higher regardless of how many children you have for a 4 bedroom.
We will always have kids sharing because we plan on having 4. The gap between Ds3 and #4 will be 4 years by the time we eventually fall pregnant so even if its a boy we will still be entitled to a 4 bedroom which makes us happy. If we had of had another boy with any of the last two pregnancies we lost we would have still only been entitled to a 3 bedroom house with SIX PEOPLE! (2 adults, 4 kids under 5). How thats fair I do not know.
We've considered applying for special needs recognition so we can get a house where all can have their own rooms but I cant be bothered fighting everyone about it.
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