Canberra public housing tenants with severe disabilities may have been denied home modifications due to Housing ACT inaction, several politicians claim.
Independent ACT politician Thomas Emerson and ACT Senator David Pocock said they are aware disabled tenants have been unable to modify homes because they cannot access NDIS funding.
ACT Housing Minister Yvette Berry has referred her own directorate to the auditor-general as the ACT government misses out on potentially millions in federal funding for disability housing.
Yvette Berry said Housing ACT was deregistered as a National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) housing provider in October.
"I am sorry about this and the process has not met the expectations," she told a committee hearing in October.
"I've been working to understand a

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