On the weekend just past the Australian Labor Party unveiled their “signature” housing policy for the upcoming election. If public opinion polls hold true, this policy will be the housing policy of the next government of Australia. Once again, the […]
RENTERS AND HOUSING UNION – MEDIA RELEASEMonday, March 3 2025 Last week, Thursday 27th and Friday 28th of Feb, RAHU members stood in solidarity with public housing residents over the final days of the class action trial against the Victorian […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 22nd September, 2023 This article is in response to Labor’s Housing Package, which can be found here. RAHU supports the principles of protecting renters’ rights. The principles of this proposal take some positive steps toward this. However, […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 30.03.2022 With 90% of our members experiencing anxiety over finding money to pay rent well before the recent cost of living increases, this ‘relief package’ is patronising and disastrously short-sighted. The Government has claimed to address spiralling […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 16.04.21 Domain’s recently released March Rental Report shows Melbourne CBD rents declining yet in the same report outer Melbourne suburbs and regional rents are steeply rising, as nationally rents are at an all time high. While the […]
The Moratorium – No Evictions? As it currently stands, you can’t be evicted with a Notice To Vacate until March 29th, 2021. That said, there have been loopholes landlords have used to force renters out of their home during the […]
