Initial response from NSW minister - our Housing issue

Just to recap, I wrote to my local state MP Micheal Daley about the dept of Housing's assertion that $360 is an "affordable" amount of rent to pay, even though that amount is presently over 50% of our meager income. This when the Dept of Housing charges it's tenants only 30% of their income. Even those who are working. In fact on our present income I don't think we'd even be charged that much, as you have to earn about $700 a week each household to go up to the 30%, with people earning less only paying 25%. Unless the rules have changed in the last few years.

So Micheal Daley has taken it up with the NSW minister for Family and Community Services, Gabrielle Upton. Her initial response is below, saying the matter will be examined and a response given:

Not holding my breath, but like I said we qualified in every way to get on the priority housing list, only to have the whole application rejected because Housing said we could afford properties of $360 or a bit less. Impossible.