South Australian Consolidated Acts

HOUSING IMPROVEMENT ACT 1940 - SECT 44

44—Letting of houses

        (1)         The housing authority may on such terms and for such periods and subject to such covenants and conditions as the housing authority thinks fit, let or lease any house maintained by it under this Act to any person of limited means, who, in the opinion of the housing authority, after taking into account—

            (a)         the existing housing accommodation of that person; and

            (b)         the availability of other suitable housing accommodation for such person at a rent within his means; and

            (c)         the number of children of the person living with him; and

            (d)         such other matters as the housing authority thinks fit,

is unable to secure suitable housing accommodation otherwise than under this Act.

        (2)         The housing authority shall in letting or leasing any such houses give reasonable preference to persons who are displaced from houses in the execution of this Act or are occupying insanitary or overcrowded houses or have large families or are living under unsatisfactory housing conditions.