Health and Human Services Department executive director for housing, Peter White, detailed the quarterly roll-out of the planned new homes at a budget estimates hearing on Wednesday.

He said there would be 153 new homes completed by the end of June under the 2015 Affordable Housing Action Plan which would lift to 165 homes by the end of September.

The tally would grow to 193 homes by the end of the year, 223 by the end of March, and 444 new homes by the end of June 2019.

Housing Minister Roger Jaensch said much work would need to be done but highlighted 115 homes had been completed over the last three months.

The estimates committee heard evictions from public housing had risen over the past nine to 49 evictions.

Eleven of these were for anti-social behaviour, 19 for rental arrears, four for property damage, and 15 for other reasons.

As of May 31, the public housing waiting list was at 3190 applicants.

Of these, 2212 were classified as priority cases.

Mr Jaensch said 2905 applicants were already in some sort of housing and 22 per cent of them were in long-term housing.

There are 12,442 social housing properties in the state; 7226 of which are managed by the government and 5216 by not-for-profit private organisations.

The committee heard 309 public housing properties had been transferred for management by the community housing sector over the year.

There have been 70 sales from the state’s public housing stock this financial year, 58 of which were dwellings.

Mr Jaensch said this included property sales to public housing tenants.