Boarding house building
Glossary Item Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Glossary Item |
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METEOR identifier: | 327408 |
Registration status: | Housing assistance, Standard 01/03/2005 Community Services (retired), Standard 19/09/2013 |
Definition: | A separate building (also referred to as a rooming or lodging house) containing multiple boarding/rooming/lodging house bedrooms and/or boarding house units. |
Context: | The identification of boarding house buildings from individual boarding house rooms or units is important in calculating the operational costs for this type of dwelling. |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | In Victoria, the term 'rooming house' is used and the term 'boarding house' is used to distinguish cases where meals are also provided. 5A(5A) A person's accommodation is exempt accommodation (i.e. they are eligible for Commonwealth Rent Assistance (CRA) at the full single rate) if it is in premises that are, in the Secretary's opinion, a boarding house, guest house, hostel, private hotel, rooming house, lodging house or similar premises. 5A(5B) In forming an opinion about a person's accommodation for the purpose of subsection (5A), the Secretary is to have regard to the characteristics of the accommodation including, in particular, whether or not the following are characteristics of the accommodation: (a) the premises are known as a boarding house, guest house, hostel, hotel, private hotel, rooming house, lodging house or similar premises; (b) a manager or administrator (other than a real estate agent) is retained to manage the premises or administer the accommodation on a daily or other frequent regular basis; (c) staff are retained by the proprietor or manager of the premises to work in the premises on a daily or other frequent regular basis; (d) the residents lack control over the day-to-day management of the premises; (e) there are house rules, imposed by the proprietor or manager, that result in residents having rights that are more limited than those normally enjoyed by a lessee of private residential accommodation (for example, rules limiting the hours of residents' access to their accommodation or limiting residents' access to cooking facilities in the premises); (f) the person does not have obligations to pay for his or her costs of gas, water or electricity separately from the cost of the accommodation; (g) the accommodation is not private residential accommodation, having regard to:
(h) the person's accommodation has not been offered to the person on a leasehold basis; (i) there is no requirement that the person pay a bond as security for either the payment of rent or the cost of any damage caused by the person, or for both; (j) the person's accommodation is available on a daily or other short-term basis. 5A(5C) Each of the characteristics set out in subsection 5(B) points towards the accommodation in question being exempt accommodation (i.e. the person is eligible for CRA at the full single rate) |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | New South Wales Department of Housing Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Origin: | CSHA Community housing data collection manual 2001-02. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Is re-engineered from Boarding house building, version 1, DEC, NHADD, NHDAMG, Superseded 01/03/2005.pdf (16.3 KB) No registration status |
Metadata items which use this glossary item: | Boarding house accommodation type Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017 Boarding house room Community Services (retired), Standard 19/09/2013 Housing assistance, Standard 01/03/2005 Boarding house unit Community Services (retired), Standard 19/09/2013 Housing assistance, Standard 01/03/2005 Boarding house unit indicator Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017 Community Housing DSS 2018- Housing assistance, Standard 10/05/2019 Dwelling Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017 Dwelling—boarding house accommodation type Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017 Dwelling—boarding house accommodation type, code N Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017 Dwelling—boarding house unit indicator Housing assistance, Standard 01/05/2013 Dwelling—boarding house unit indicator, yes/no code N Housing assistance, Superseded 01/05/2013 Dwelling—boarding house unit indicator, yes/no code N Housing assistance, Standard 01/05/2013 Dwelling—number of bedrooms, total N[NN] Housing assistance, Superseded 10/02/2006 Dwelling—number of bedrooms, total N[NN] Housing assistance, Superseded 01/05/2013 Dwelling—number of bedrooms, total N[NN] Community Services (retired), Standard 19/09/2013 Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017 Dwelling—number of bedrooms, total N[NN] Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017 Indigenous community housing DSS 2013-18 Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017 Indigenous community housing DSS 2014- Housing assistance, Recorded 12/05/2016 Indigenous Community Housing DSS 2018- Housing assistance, Standard 10/05/2019 Mainstream community housing DSS 2013-18 Housing assistance, Superseded 10/05/2019 Mainstream community housing DSS 2014- Housing assistance, Recorded 12/05/2016 Public Housing and State Owned and Managed Indigenous housing (PH & SOMIH) DSS 2018- Housing assistance, Standard 10/05/2019 Service provider organisation—number of boarding house buildings, total number N[NNN] Housing assistance, Superseded 01/05/2013 Service provider organisation—number of boarding house buildings, total number N[NNN] Housing assistance, Standard 01/05/2013 State owned and managed Indigenous housing (SOMIH) DSS 2013-14 Housing assistance, Superseded 30/08/2017 State owned and managed Indigenous housing (SOMIH) DSS 2014-17 Housing assistance, Standard 30/08/2017 State owned and managed Indigenous housing (SOMIH) DSS 2017-18 Housing assistance, Superseded 05/05/2019 |