Visitors in public housing

There are restrictions on how long visitors can stay with you in your public housing property in the Northern Territory (NT).

Visitors to your home can stay for up to 14 days. Sometimes visitors may need to stay for cultural, medical, sporting or family reasons.

If you want a visitor to stay longer than 14 days, you must apply for permission from your local housing office.

To help you and your visitors understand the conditions for managing visitors in public housing, you can listen to the audio recordings and downloadable files in different languages below.

How many visitors are allowed

The number of visitors you can invite to stay depends on the number of people living in your house and the number of bedrooms you have.

How to apply

To apply for permission for your visitor, you must follow these steps:

Step 1. Fill in the visitor extended stay form.

Visitor extender stay form PDF (709.0 KB)
Visitor extended stay form DOCX (919.4 KB)

You must include the total number of visitors and each visitor's:

name including other given names
date of birth
phone number
current residential address
length of stay
reason for staying
arrival date
number of dependents if any.

Step 2. Submit your form to your local housing office.

When you can't apply

Your application may not be approved if any of the following applies to your visitors:

they could cause overcrowding
they're former public housing tenants or occupants of a tenancy that was terminated by the Department of Territory Families, Housing and Communities in the last two years
they can't prove they have a permanent home elsewhere.

If your visitors cause problems

What you can do

If your visitors cause problems, you can:

ask them to leave
call the NT Police on 131 444
call your public housing safety officer on 1800 685 743
contact your local housing office.

What the department can do

The department can ask your visitors to leave if:

you don't want them to stay but find it hard to ask them to leave
overcrowding is a concern
your visitors are causing antisocial behaviour.

The department can also take the following legal steps:

issue a notice to stop certain behaviours
issue a notice for your visitors to leave
issue a trespass order
issue a notice of a breach of tenancy which you can show your visitors.

Aboriginal language recordings

Listen below to find out conditions for visitors in your public housing home.

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