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    Through a Renter's Lens: "We make our own homes"
    Incoming Minns’ government needs to implement promised reforms to our renting system urgently
    Through a Renter's Lens – photo competition
    NSW to ban ‘no grounds’ evictions for renters during periodic tenancies
    Renter's privacy and data
    Improving renting laws for people experiencing domestic violence
    More news

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    Privacy, data and discrimination in renting
    A huge win for NSW renters
    NSW Election Announcement Tracker
    The 2023 NSW election could be a renters' election #RentersElection2023
    Pitter patter towards pet-friendly homes
    Banning rent bidding: what do the new protections do?
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    08/03/2023
    Through a Renter's Lens – photo competition
    Over the last few months we have been delighted to host a statewide competition and exhibition of renters' photography. We were thrilled with the number and quality of entries we received on all the three themes of People, Place and Pets. Beyond technical skill, aesthetic appeal and excellent composition, the renter photographers were able to capture the human side behind the rental crisis currently gripping NSW.
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    05/12/2022
    Standing Strong – Tenant Advocates Conference
    In November 2022 almost 100 Tenant Advocates and guests gathered on Yuin Country for our Annual Conference. The theme of the conference this year was "Standing Strong" – in reference to the work Tenant Advocates do supporting tenants, especially through tough times like the last few years. 
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    09/10/2022
    Who is using the Tribunal and why?
    We are always trying to better understand what is happening for NSW renters. We want to make sure we can identify the problems and pressures renters are experiencing, as well as whether the policies and laws in place to support them are working. In this blog we use data from NCAT about the lodgements of their tenancy and social housing lists over the past financial year, that is July 2021 - June 2022 and ask who is taking action, and about what?
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  • Action for Public Housing protest against redevelopment of Glebe estates
    13/09/2022
    Examining claims about the social objectives of estate renewal
    As the NSW Government moves to implementing its decision to redevelop the Waterloo Estate, the social objectives claimed for the redevelopment and what is needed to deliver them becomes a focus. In this blog guest author Dr Alistair Sisson, an academic in the field examines the NSW government's claims about the social objectives of estate renewal. Thanks to redwatch for permission to re-publish.
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