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Your rights as a tenant

We put you in touch with the Tenants' Union of NSW and your local Tenants Advice and Advocacy Service.

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Tenants NSW

This website is published by the Tenants' Union of NSW on behalf of NSW Tenants Advice and Advocacy Services. Here you can find out about:

The information on this site is for all tenants in New South Wales, including tenants of private rental housing, social housing, boarding and lodging houses and residential parks.

Increase tenants advice funding now!

Tenants Advice and Advocacy Services (TAAS) are unable to assist all tenants who need help in exercising their rights. Demand for TAAS has grown significantly over the past 10 years while funding has not. In fact, baseline funding for TAAS has not increased at all in those 10 years!

Read more: Increase tenants advice funding now!

TAAS need your help to help tenants

Please send letters in support of increased TAAP funding to:

  • Mr Anthony Roberts, MP, Minister for Fair Trading, and
  • Mr Mike Baird, MP, Treasurer

at Level 36, 1 Farrer Place, SYDNEY NSW 2000

Download a letter here. (If you send a letter, let us know by email at tunsw[at]clc.net.au.)

NEWS

Tenancy Advice and Advocacy Network welcomes Boarding House Reform proposal

May 2012

The Tenancy Advice and Advocacy Services (TAAS) Network has welcomed an accouncement by the NSW Ministers for Disability Services and Fair Trading, of a proposal to reform the boarding house sector in New South Wales.

Read more:Tenancy Advice and Advocacy Network welcomes Boarding House Reform proposal [Tenants NSW website] 

 

Residential Tenancies Act 2010: report

March 2012

The Residential Tenancies Act 2010 (the Act) commenced on January 31st 2011. It has now been in operation for a little over a year, and it is timely to consider what is working, and what needs to be improved.

Read more: Residential Tenancies Act 2010: report [Tenants' Union of NSW website] 

Review of Residential Parks Act 1998: submission

29 February 2012

The Tenants' Union of NSW has written to NSW Fair Trading in support of the submission by the Park and Village Service.

Read more: Review of Residential Parks Act 1998: submission [Tenants’ Union of NSW website]

Reforming Marginal Rental: update

February 2012

In March 2011 the Tenants’ Union of NSW launched the Reforming Marginal Renting campaign, for a better deal for people who rent their housing but are not covered by the State’s renting laws.

Read more: Reforming Marginal Rental: update, February 2012 [Tenants’ Union of NSW website]

Aboriginal Tenants Advice Services

Living in a share house?

Tenants' Union blog: The Brown Couch

ABOUT TENANTS NSW
This site is a publication of the Tenants’ Union of NSW and the network of Tenants Advice and Advocacy Services throughout New South Wales. The Tenants’ Union of NSW is the State’s peak non-government organisation for tenants. Tenants Advice and Advocacy Services (TAASs) provide free, independent information, advice and advocacy to tenants throughout New South Wales.

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