This month the Renters and Housing Union is holding two free Renters Rights Workshops in Melbourne. Come and meet your fellow renters, and learn about your rights as a renter! The first will on Saturday 12 October 3pm-5pm ADST, at […]
While the government’s Build To Rent bill proposes to put more money in the hands of speculative housing investors and building conglomerates, governments across the country continue their plans to tear down and sell off public housing.
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In June 2024, RAHU contributed a written submission to the Victorian Labor government’s Minimum Standards for Rental Properties and Rooming Houses. The state government opened for submissions relating to the new minimum energy efficiency and safety standards proposed for rental […]
Our volunteer Renters Rights Committee (RRC) assists renters every day to know their rights, take appropriate actions to protect them selves from unscrupulous landlords and agents, and support renters to self advocate. Last week we discovered a glitch in our […]
The earth makes another turn, and we still have a huge number of homeless and rough sleepers, massive rent hikes and criminally poor conditions for many of the houses we call homes in Australia – a wealthy country that can […]
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, […]
HAFF’s Unclear Path On the 11th of September, the Greens announced that with an extra $1,000,000,000 of ‘direct investment’ into social housing – The Social Housing Accelerator – they would support Labor’s ‘Housing Australia Future Fund’ (HAFF). Labor’s HAFF will […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 8 July, 2023 RAHU would like to make a statement of unconditional support for the Save Barak Beacon campaign. Below is the unedited media statement released by the group. Activists have taken up residence in the disused homes […]
Report from International Union of Tenants World Conference, Lisbon, Portugal Eirene Tsolidis Noyce – April 2023 During the International Union of Tenants World Conference, delegates were provided the opportunity to visit one of Lisbon’s newest public housing projects. This project […]
