THE STARTING POINT

- In the last ten years more than 20,000 new dwellings have been purchased, constructed or leased for public or community housing.

- More than 51,000 public housing properties, approximately 40 per cent of the Government's portfolio, have been upgraded in the last eight years.

- Elderly people now occupy 31 per cent of public housing an increase of 12 per cent in the last 10 years.