Illawarra and South Coast Tenants Advice & Advocacy Service (ISCTAAS)

 

CONTACT

Phone

(02) 4276 1939

Hours:

Mon:

9:30am-1:00pm, 2:00pm-4:30pm

Tue:

9:30am-1:00pm, 2:00pm-4:30pm

Wed:

9:30am-1:00pm, 2:00pm-4:30pm

Thu:

2:00pm-4:30pm

Fri:

9:30am-1:00pm, 2:00pm-4:30pm

Contact online

 

ABOUT

We are the tenants service at Illawarra Legal Centre.

We provide free information, advice and advocacy to renters. This includes help with applications and hearings in the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal. ISCTAAS helps Homes NSW tenants, community housing tenants, Aboriginal housing tenants, permanent residents of caravan parks and manufactured home estates, boarders and lodgers, and private tenants.

Our services are available to renters the Wollongong, Shellharbour, Kiama, Wingecarribee, Shoalhaven, Eurobodalla, and Bega Valley areas.

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Warrawong NAIDOC Family Fun Day 2025 – Celebrating Strength, Vision & Legacy  

This year’s Warrawong NAIDOC Family Fun Day was an incredible celebration of culture, community, and connection.
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Joint statement: Reinstate evidence requirements for evictions due to repairs or renovations

On Friday, 20th June, only five weeks after the new rental laws came into effect, ending no-grounds evictions, the NSW government significantly weakened the rules surrounding evictions for renovations/repairs. The NSW Government must commit to reinstating the evidence requirements for landlords seeking to evict a tenant due to significant repairs or renovations, and restore trust in the tenancy reform process— a joint st from the Tenants' Union and our sector partners.
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Housing not stadiums urge housing organisations

Peak housing and homelessness organisations urge Premier to invest the $2 billion of public money towards housing and support for the most vulnerable in our community and not to rebuild sports…
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Older people at risk of homelessness

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Make Renting Fair gains momentum

In NSW current tenancy legislation allows landlords in the private market to end a tenancy without having to give a reason. This means renters are often scared to enforce their rights because…
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#WeLiveHere community action

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From Millers Point to Glebe

Paddi O’Leary was a tenant in social housing at Millers Point and participated in tenant action to reverse the policy of relocation and also supported tenants through the process of relocation.…
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Transfer of Tenancy Management from Public to Community Housing

In October 2016 the Government announced the transfer of tenancy management for thousands of tenanted public housing properties from the Department of Family and Community Services (FACS Housing…
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Boarding Houses Act Five Years On

The Boarding Houses Act 2012 reflected over 40 years of lobbying by public interest groups, including the TU, to try to provide rights and enforceable protections for residents of boarding…
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2017 in review

With Christmas fast-approaching 2017 is coming to an end. The Residential (Land Lease) Communities Act has been operating for two years and continues to throw up familiar disputes and surprises…
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Proposed Automatic Rent Deduction Scheme may reduce fairness

The Automatic Rent Deduction Scheme (ARDS) as proposed by the Social Services Legislative Amendment (Housing Affordability) Bill 2017 if passed will have a detrimental impact on arrears and debt…
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Tenants' organisations concerned about forced rent payments proposal

The National Association of Tenants Organisations has concerns about aspects of a Bill before Federal parliament which would enable social housing landlords to access tenants income support…
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Submission: Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs Inquiry into the Social Services Legislation Amendment (Housing Affordability) Bill 2017

The Automatic Rent Deduction Scheme (ARDS) as proposed by the Social Services Legislative Amendment (Housing Affordability) Bill 2017 if passed will have a detrimental impact on arrears and debt…
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Annual Report 2016-2017

The last 12 months has again been significant for the Tenants' Union and for renters in NSW. The next 12 look as equally interesting. 2017 has been dubbed ‘the year of the renter’ by Domain…
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