Tenancy posters far and wide!
19/07/2025
In 2024 the Tenants' Union commissioned three young renter artists to create posters about the change in tenancy laws. We love what they came up with! The artworks are delightful, original, authentic, and pay homage to the long tradition of street posters. The three posters aim to educate and celebrate renters' rights, including the end of no-grounds evictions and the the new rights renters have around pets. They also promote the network of Tenants Advice & Advocacy Services and our tenancy information. The posters were unveiled at our celebration of 30 years of the Tenants Advice & Advocacy Program in Dharug Country last year.
Now, we're putting up over 6,000 prints of these posters all across NSW – look out for them in your local cafe, library, or on the streets! The posters are going up everywhere – in Sydney's west, south, north and east; in regional towns from Albury to Armidale, from Nowra to Newcastle, from Tamworth to Tuncurry, from Wagga Wagga to Wollongong. Special thanks to the State Library of NSW, local libraries, and community centres who are helping get the message out.
If you would like to display copies of these posters, you're welcome to download them and print them (for non-commercial purposes), or use this order form to request copies. Before pasting posters, please check in with us. We want to make sure posters are only placed in legal and responsible places.
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The posters and the artists...
(Tap on each image for a closer look.)
Renters we're with you!
Miles Hiroshi Huynh
"Inspired by the get-togethers hosted over a single thrifted table from Marketplace; inside living rooms where there aren’t enough places to sit; over conversations that make rentals into a home, I wanted to illustrate a scene that I knew well. Tenants living their lives. This lived-in-ness could only be evoked through an overuse of real and simulated textures, from rough grains, sandy surfaces, inky misprints, to splotchy crayons. Even the background is a collage; photographs of empty rentals taken by my housemate and I when we were house-hunting. Now amorphous and fuzzy, what remains are the memories we have created over these white walls and carpeted floors."
No eviction without a reason!
Elena F
"A person’s home is – in an ideal world – a place of safety, freedom, and self-expression. A secure and healthy living environment provides a strong foundation from which to carry on a life both within and without its borders. When you can’t rely on having a place to sleep at night, or if you are forced to rely on a place where your health, dignity and sanity are not protected, it undercuts your
ability to live, work and love. It is difficult to make a space your own when you have to fear being forced to leave. I deplore a market that is willing to rip housing away from people for the sake of profit and personal gain. Housing is a human right, not a commodity. As this is an optimistic brief, I wanted to depict homes as they grow to reflect a person or family and serve as springboards for a more meaningful life."
Pets are family!
Emily Greenwood
"I am privileged to have been asked to make this poster for the Tenants’ Union of New South Wales. I grew up in public housing, and have only ever rented, so renter's rights are an integral part of my life. The poster is inspired by the housemates I had in Melbourne and their pets. In the state of Victoria a rental provider cannot unreasonably refuse consent to a renter keeping a pet. I hope that with the new laws, and the help of this poster and all the work the Tenants’ Union does, we can achieve a similar situation here in New South Wales. Everyone deserves to have a pet, not just those who own their homes, because pets are family!"
The posters out and about...
