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Public and community housing – Relocations, Transfers, and Renewal

This page contains resources relating to public and community housing renewal, and transfers of housing stock from public to community providers.
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Factsheet: Rent increases

Rent increases

As a tenant you have rights under the Residential Tenancies Act 2010 and Residential Tenancies Regulation 2019. This factsheet summarises the law in NSW about how rent may be increased,…
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Submission

Submission: Draft public housing tenants support bill and housing payment deduction scheme

The Housing Payment Deduction Scheme would allow, in two circumstances, public housing authorities (‘public housing lessors’) to request the deduction of monies from the social security payments…
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Research

‘Reshaping Public Housing’ and Work Disincentives

Aspects of the recent ‘Reshaping Public Housing’ reforms have generated serious work disincentives for public housing tenants. These aspects of the reforms should be repealed.
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Briefing

Briefing Paper: Tenant fraud bill

The Tenants' Union believes that it is important to ensure the integrity of the systems administered by the NSW Land and Housing Corporation (the corporate aspect of Housing NSW) for…
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