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 COVID19 crisis is far from over in Victoria, yet the measures of relief for millions of renters are running out. We need an urgent extension and expansion of the COVID19 Omnibus Legislation eviction moratorium. We demand: 1. The […]
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 […]
Renters And Housing Union Real estate agents are continuing to threaten recently unemployed renters during the COVID-19 crisis. Launching from the Rent & Mortgage Strike, renters and people in precarious housing across Victoria have voted to unionise in efforts to […]
