FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 24.09.2020 Today’s cuts to Jobseeker and Jobkeeper will hit renters hardest. RAHU has emerged as a vital grass-roots organisation to support renters and those in precarious housing throughout the pandemic, but we are about to see huge […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 07.09.2020 In response to the government’s road map for Victoria released on Sunday, the REIV has recklessly instructed its members to “refuse” instructions from the State Government to negotiate in “good faith”. RAHU urges the government to […]
Download Full Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 03.09.2020 BREAKING: Eviction Ban Extended signals the road ahead for affordable housing The Renters And Housing Union (VIC) welcomes the recent announcement of the COVID19 Legislation extension to March 2021. We are relieved that […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 31 August 2020 Renters And Housing Union stands with the call to Keep the Rate. As the country bands together to stay at home and suppress the virus, the Federal Government continues to show their contempt for […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 28 August 2020 The conclusions of the ANU’s Menzies Centre that housing measures enacted during COVID-19 do nothing to address long-term housing precarity come as no surprise to RAHU. Since the start of the pandemic, RAHU has […]
20.08 ‘Strike the right balance’ – Moratorium Extension Announcement Extending relief for 3 months for landlords to ‘do the right thing’, yet ‘striking the right balance’ further skews the power to landlords RAHU is relieved that the Victorian Government has […]
Download Media Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 20 August 2020 Working people will be forced to foreclose their futures to keep the rich rich with proposed amendments to the Jobseeker waiting period. RAHU strongly denounces the Federal Government’s proposed amendments to […]
The Renters 3 Month Review outlines the issues renters faced during the first three months of the COVID-19 Omnibus legislation, and demonstrates the necessity of legislation extension and further amendments to avoid a wave of evictions in September. Recommendations from […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 20 July 2020 In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, real estate agents have been found coercing recently unemployed renters into deferring rental payments instead of negotiating rent reductions, contravening government advice. RAHU has received hundreds of […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, July 7th 2020 Renters And Housing Union (RAHU) VIC stands with residents and their demands, and denounces the unnecessary and dangerous police presence in the public housing flats in Flemington, Kensington and North Melbourne. RAHU will […]
