Everybody's Home is a new campaign by a coalition of organisations in the housing and community sectors. The campaign will bring national attention to reforms urgently needed to fix…
If you own, live in or manage an apartment, we encourage you to make sure your building is fire safe. Material that covers external walls, also known as cladding, can increase the intensity and…
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…
Make Renting Fair is a new community campaign to end unfair evictions. Bringing together a strong coalition of local community organisations, unions, and faith based organisations, the Tenants…
Energy bills. Most of us don’t look forward to getting them. They're often difficult to understand, but the worst part is looking to the spot in the bill where the dollars owed sit in heavy…
Grant Arbuthnot, Tenants' Union Principal Legal Officer, discusses three decisions by the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT). Each of these three decisions has implications for…
Between December 2016 and January 2017, the Tenants' Union of NSW and TAASs conducted a survey of people who have lived in a sharehouse over the last five years, to gather data and insights…
Kellie and her son Elijah are tenants on the Central Coast. At their previous place the landlord failed to abide by the agreement and renting laws in a number of ways. So Kellie got advice from…
In this Tenant's Union submission to the ‘Justice for everyday problems: Civil Justice in NSW’ consultation paper, we focus on ‘everyday’ problems of tenants and how the civil justice…
The Residential (Land Lease) Communities Act 2013 (the Act) commenced on 1 November 2015. It has now been in operation for just over a year and it is timely to consider what is working, and what…
