Zuzia Buszewicz • 29/01/2024
Re-joining the Tenants’ Union at the end of 2023 allowed me to jump back into the details of the ongoing housing and rental crisis in Australia and NSW and investigate the mechanisms recently put in place by the federal government to help abate it.
Jemima Mowbray • 15/01/2024
Greetings, fellow renters of New South Wales! As we kick off the new year, it's time for our beloved NSW renting laws to take a long, hard look in the mirror and make some serious resolutions. Just like the rest of us, they've been making promises for years, and it's high time they start keeping them. A rented home should be safe, healthy, stable and affordable and our policies and laws should be aimed at delivering on this.
Leo Patterson Ross • 19/12/2023
In the last couple of weeks, amplified by the Federal government, there has been a resurgence of the idea that pulling back migration numbers will ease pressure on our renting system.
Over the last week, the annual tradition of a real estate agent sending out an email warning their renters not to fall behind in rent over Chistmas was continued, this time by an agency in Victoria.
2023 has been one of the hardest years for so many people, and yet we know people didn't stop paying their rent until they had no other option. We know people went without food, medical care or heating in order to keep a roof over their head.
In the past fifteen years, a number of studies have shed light on the significant relationship between housing and well-being. Recent research by Rachel Ong VitorJ and others underscores the two-way nature of this relationship, by demonstrating that it is not just our housing situation (whether precarious or non-precarious) that influences our well-being - conversely, our well-being can also impact our housing status and feed into if, when and for how long people stay precariously housed.
26/10/2023
