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…
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…
If you rent part of a house or unit from another tenant, it is very important that you have a separate written agreement with your head-tenant. Without a written agreement, you will not have the…
Firstly, to introduce us, I am Carol (on the left in the picture) and my sister is Vivian (on the right). We are social housing residents living in Riverwood and have lived here since 1984.…
Sharon Callaghan, former Tenant Advocate in the Illawarra, reflects on the fight for tenants' rights in the 1980s and 1990s. In the early 1980s Sharon was a community worker at the…
Indigo Dunphy is a 20 year old queer person who, at the time of interviewing, was living in a share house with another queer woman and two straight men. She has a girlfriend who stayed over…
Parental rejection and family violence based on gender identity have been cited as causes of homelessness for young trans people in Australia. The insecurity of homelessness can in turn have…
Investors own more than half of the residential strata lots in New South Wales’.1 It stands to reason that tenants occupy the majority of lots within the state’s strata schemes, and have a…
Early in 2014 the Tenants’ Union conducted a short online survey on Housing Affordability to gauge tenants' experiences and expectations of renting. 580 tenants responded. The most striking…
The Tenants' Union sought an indication of the extent to which the Boarding Houses Act 2012 applies to the roomshare market, and the extent to which registrable boarding houses in the room-…
In this brief submission the Tenants' Union focusses our remarks on the implications of the proposed New Planning System, and the Draft Metropolitan Strategy, for low income households in…
