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Rental Bond

This factsheets includes specialist information for Koori tenants in NSW. It explains about the rental bond and how it relates to your tenancy.
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When you start renting

This factsheets includes specialist information for Koori tenants in NSW. It explains your rights and responsibilities when you start a new tenancy.
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Property modifications for older tenants

Are you an older tenant who wants to have modifications done to your rental property? This resource tells you your rights.
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Brett Webb, Aboriginal Tenant Advocate

A day in the life of Brett Webb: Aboriginal Tenant Advocate

Brett Webb is an Aboriginal Tenant Advocate at the Northern Aboriginal Tenants Advice and Advocacy Service. In this interview he speaks about his experiences and day-to-day work.
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Carol

Home and health

Carol Carter is an Aboriginal woman living in public housing in Bankstown in Sydney. In September 2014, Carol received a letter from the Department of Housing in relation to relocating her to…
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Charmaine Jones, with TU staff, Patrycja, Jemima, Anne and Julie

A strong voice for tenants

Charmaine Jones, social housing tenant and Tenants' Union Treasurer, reflects on her involvement with the TU and the changes in the sphere of social housing.
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Annette Murphy

A place of my own

"I am originally from Walgett, Northern NSW. In Walgett everyone knows me as ‘Daughter’. I would like to move back to Walgett, but my children and grandchildren are in Sydney, so I will…
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Taressa Mongta, Surry Hills tenant

Home is everything to me

"I grew up on the Northern foreshores of Botany Bay at the La Perouse Aboriginal Reserve AKA ‘Lappa Mish’ in the 1970s and 1980’s. It was great growing up there. The sea was our backyard –…
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Five Changes to Social Housing Laws

In October 2015, NSW Parliament passed a law changing the rights and responsibilities of all social housing tenants in important ways. FACS Housing will begin using these new rules against…
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