The body that owns the asset, as distinct from Homes NSW which manages the tenancy. That split matters: the tenant reports a fault to one organisation and the money to fix it sits with another.

The condition data is the finding. In 2023, more than 30 per cent of social housing stock did not meet the acceptable dwelling condition standard — defined as having at least four working facilities and not more than two major structural problems. That is not a repairs backlog in the ordinary sense; it is a third of a portfolio below a minimum standard.

Homes NSW received 24,592 urgent maintenance requests in 2023-24. A $1 billion Repair and Restore maintenance program was announced to fix 30,000 homes, new maintenance contracts commenced on 1 July 2024, and the maintenance call centre was brought back in-house through a single Maintenance Hub.

Why this body is in a database about process. Maintenance is operating expenditure and competes annually against everything else a state funds. Replacement is capital. Underspending the first shortens asset life and creates the second, at several times the cost — and the saving is booked in the year it is made while the cost arrives a decade later, in a different budget, under a different minister.

That is a sequencing failure of exactly the kind this database exists to record, and it is invisible in any single year's accounts. See The saving is booked this year and the bill arrives in a decade, on someone else's budget.