Greater Sydney Aboriginal Tenants Service (GSATS) assists and advocates with telephone advice, letters of support, attending the Tribunal, mediation and advocacy, Housing Appeals Committee applications, repairs and maintenance issues, helping to find services who can assist with other issues, attending meetings with your landlord (including Housing NSW), and negotiating with landlords. We also provide Community Education and Duty Advocacy.
Our services are available to Aboriginal renters in greater metropolitan Sydney.
On Friday 21 May 2021, WESTS held a community engagement event at the Skye Hotel in Parramatta to reconnect with key partners of our organisation. The event was a great success. There were over…
“There’s no place like home.” But for so many of us who rent, current tenancy laws and practice prevent renters from feeling the sense of being settled and secure needed to really feel 'at…
Yesterday the Tenants' Union NSW's CEO Leo Patterson Ross and Policy and Advocacy Coordinator Jemima Mowbray attended a public hearing of the Follow Up Review of the Management of…
This submission focuses on the experiences of renters in strata schemes. We are pleased to provide this submission identifying key ways in which previous reforms to strata law can be built on,…
We would like to thank the Advisory Team for their work in creating the Interim Report to the Australian Government on the Indigenous Voice Co-Design Process. Tenants’ Union of NSW welcomes the…
The COVID eviction Moratorium Period which began in April 2020 is coming to an end on 26 March. However a six-month Transition Period will follow, during which there will be limited protections…
Rivergum Holiday Park at Corowa is a small community with about 45 residents including Bob Myles who was one of the first home owners to take an electricity dispute to the Tribunal under the…
On 13 November 2020, Liesl Tesch, MP and Member for Gosford made a Private Members Statement in the NSW Parliament regarding Kincumber Nautical Village (KNV). Ms Tesch had become aware of the…
The Tenants’ Union welcomes the opportunity to provide comment on the Discussion Paper on the Statutory Review of the Residential Land Lease Communities Act (2013).
40 community organisations sign on today to Open Letter calling for stronger protections and additional financial support for COVID impacted renters through transition
The Tenants' Union of NSW is pleased to provide comment on NSW Treasury’s proposal for reforms to our current tax system. We are primarily interested in the experience of people who rent…
The Tenants' Union's work, and that of the Tenants Advice and Advocacy Services we work alongside, brings us into frequent contact with very low, low- and moderate-income households…
