Minister for Housing (New South Wales)

The Minister for Housing was a ministry in the government of New South Wales, with the principal responsibility being the provision of housing for the poor. It was first established in 1919 in the Nationalist ministry of William Holman and has had 4 incarnations from 1919 to 1921, 1922–1925, 1941–2011 and 2017–2019. The portfolio was absorbed by the new portfolio of Water, Property and Housing in 2019. There was also a related Minister for Social Housing between 2015 and 2019.[1]

Minister for Housing of New South Wales
The inaugural minister David Hall
AppointerGovernor of New South Wales
Formation23 July 1919
First holderDavid Hall
Final holderAnthony Roberts
Abolished23 March 2019

Role and responsibilities

A housing board had been created in 1912,[2] and was under the supervision of the Treasurer.[3] A separate ministry was created in 1919 and its initial purpose was to regulate standards for housing construction and to provide housing for the poor.[4] It was abolished with the first Dooley ministry in 1921 and was revived in the first and second Fuller ministries. Housing was re-established as a ministry in the first McKell Ministry as a part of the portfolio of Local Government and Housing. The minister oversaw the Housing Commission established by the Housing Act 1941,[5] to provide housing for the unemployed and other schemes to assist the purchase and/or erection of homes for lower-income and servicemen's families.[6] It became a separate ministry in the second McKell ministry and in addition to housing schemes for the poor the portfolio was responsible for a range of leasing and title bodies including rent control, landlord and tenant issues and strata title. In 2011 with the formation of the O'Farrell ministry housing was absorbed into the portfolio of Family and Community Services.[7]

The separate portfolio of housing was briefly re-created in the First Berejiklian ministry in 2017, however it did not have responsibility for any legislation which remained with the portfolios of family and community services and social housing.[8]

The portfolio was abolished in the second Berejiklian ministry and housing became the responsibility of the Minister for Water, Property and Housing.

List of ministers

TitleMinister [1]PartyMinistryTerm startTerm endTime in officeNotes
Minister for Housing David Hall   Nationalist Holman (2) 23 July 1919 9 February 1920 201 days
Charles Oakes 9 February 1920 12 April 1920 63 days
James Dooley   Labor Storey 12 April 1920 10 October 1921 1 year, 181 days
Minister for Housing Sir Thomas Henley   Nationalist Fuller (1) 20 December 1921 a.m. 20 December 1921 p.m. 7 hours
Minister for Housing Sir Thomas Henley   Nationalist Fuller (2) 13 April 1922 19 June 1922 67 days
Richard Ball 28 June 1922 17 June 1925 2 years, 354 days
Minister for Local Government and Housing James McGirr   Labor McKell (1) 16 May 1941 8 June 1944 5 years, 266 days
Minister for Housing McKell (2) 8 June 1944 6 February 1947
Clive Evatt McGirr (1) (2) 6 February 1947 30 June 1950 3 years, 144 days
Gus Kelly McGirr (3) 30 June 1950 2 April 1952 1 year, 277 days
Clive Evatt Cahill (1) (2) 2 April 1952 1 April 1954 1 year, 364 days
Gus Kelly Cahill (2) 1 April 1954 2 September 1954 154 days
John McGrath 2 September 1954 15 March 1956 1 year, 195 days
Abe Landa Cahill (3) (4)
Heffron (1) (2)
Renshaw		 15 March 1956 13 May 1965 9 years, 59 days
Stanley Stephens   Country Askin (1) (2) (3) (4) 13 May 1965 17 January 1973 7 years, 249 days
Tim Bruxner Askin (5) 17 January 1973 3 December 1973 320 days
Laurie McGinty   Liberal Askin (6)
Lewis (1) (2)		 3 December 1973 23 January 1976 2 years, 51 days
Ian Griffith Willis 23 January 1976 14 May 1976 112 days
Jack Ferguson   Labor Wran (1) 14 May 1976 10 February 1977 272 days
Ron Mulock 10 February 1977 19 October 1978 1 year, 251 days
Syd Einfeld Wran (2) 19 October 1978 29 February 1980 1 year, 133 days
Terry Sheahan Wran (3) (4) 29 February 1980 1 February 1983 2 years, 338 days
Frank Walker Wran (5) (6) (7) (8)
Unsworth		 1 February 1983 21 March 1988 5 years, 49 days
Joe Schipp   Liberal Greiner (1) (2) 21 March 1988 3 July 1992 4 years, 104 days
Robert Webster   Country Fahey (1) (2) (3) 3 July 1992 4 April 1995 2 years, 275 days
Craig Knowles   Labor Carr (1) (2) 4 April 1995 8 April 1999 4 years, 4 days
Andrew Refshauge Carr (3) 8 April 1999 2 April 2003 3 years, 359 days
Carl Scully Carr (4) 2 April 2003 21 January 2005 1 year, 294 days
Joe Tripodi Iemma (1) 21 January 2005 10 August 2005 201 days
Cherie Burton 10 August 2005 2 April 2007 1 year, 235 days
Matt Brown Iemma (2) 2 April 2007 8 September 2008 1 year, 159 days
David Borger Rees 8 September 2008 21 May 2010 1 year, 255 days
Frank Terenzini Keneally 21 May 2010 28 March 2011 311 days
Minister for Housing Anthony Roberts   Liberal Berejiklian (1) 30 January 2017 23 March 2019 2 years, 52 days [9]

Social housing
This section is an excerpt from Minister for Social Housing (New South Wales) § List of ministers.[edit]
TitleMinister [1]PartyMinistryTerm startTerm endTime in officeNotes
Minister for Social Housing Brad Hazzard   Liberal Baird (2) 2 April 2015 30 January 2017 1 year, 303 days [10]
Pru Goward Berejiklian (1) 30 January 2017 23 March 2019 2 years, 52 days [11]

References
  1. Part 6 Ministries since 1856 (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
  2. Housing Act 1912 (NSW)
  3. "AGY-2026 Housing Board". NSW State Records & Archives. Retrieved 20 September 2021.  This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
  4. "PFO-98 Housing [I}". NSW State Records & Archives. Retrieved 20 September 2021.  This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
  5. Housing Act 1941 (NSW)
  6. "PFO-94 Local Government and Housing". NSW State Records & Archives. Retrieved 20 September 2021.  This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
  7. "PFO-98 Housing [II]". NSW State Records & Archives. Retrieved 20 September 2021.  This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
  8. "PFO-375 Housing [III]". NSW State Records & Archives. Retrieved 20 September 2021.  This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.
  9. "Refreshed NSW cabinet sworn in". Sky News. Australia. AAP. 30 January 2017. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
  10. Hasham, Nicole (3 April 2015). "Premier Mike Baird's new NSW cabinet sworn in: Gladys Berejiklian and Gabrielle Upton first female Treasurer and Attorney-General". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
  11. Robertson, James (28 January 2017). "Anthony Roberts, Brad Hazzard take key roles in Gladys Berejiklian reshuffle". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
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