Definition
Home purchase assistance for the purpose of this collection relates to the provision of financial assistance to households to improve their access to home ownership.
Includes:
- direct lending (including government loans, shared equity loans and bridging loans)
- deposit assistance
- interest rate assistance
- mortgage relief
- other assistance grants.
Excludes:
- non-financial assistance, e.g. home purchase advisory and counselling services
- home renovation/maintenance services
- sale to tenant programs
- any assistance that does not directly facilitate the purchase of a home
- relocation or start up assistance
- the provision of housing or any share of it
- any expense incurred in providing assistance to a household that is not the value of financial assistance received directly by the household; and
- any aspect of a shared equity loan that is not direct lending, deposit assistance, interest rate assistance or mortgage relief.
Any household that had monies outstanding on repayable home purchase assistance provided in a previous period at the commencement of the 2012-13 financial year are within the scope of this collection.
Any households that received transfers of home purchase assistance in the 2012-13 financial year are within the scope of this collection.
Households that received transfers of home purchase assistance in the 2012-13 financial year are those that commenced receiving home purchase assistance in the 2012-13 financial year and those that commenced receiving ongoing home purchase assistance in a previous financial year and continued to receive that assistance in the 2012-13 financial year.
Metadata items in this Data Set Specification
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Each entry includes the item name, whether the item is optional, mandatory or conditional and the maximum times the item can occur in a dataset.
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Address: Australian Postcode, (Postcode datafile) NNNN
Specific Information:
This item is used to collect the dwelling postcode.
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Number | 4 | mandatory | 1 | |
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Address—suburb/town/locality name, text X[X(45)]
Specific Information:
This item is used to collect the suburb in which the dwelling is located. The field for suburb name may be truncated to 15 characters in this collection.
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- | - | mandatory | 1 |
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| As a numerator in an Indicator | 0 |
| As a denominator in an Indicator | 0 |
| As a disaggregation in an Indicator | 0 |