Big thank you to Nadia Clancy SA Labor, Robert Simms MLC, and Michelle Lensink for hosting the Healthy Homes for Renters briefing with South Australian Council of Social Service and Uniting Communities this afternoon! Everyone deserves a healthy home!

Read Anglicare's full Rental Affordability Snapshot here: anglicare.asn.au/publications/2…

and ABC's summary piece here: abc.net.au/news/2024-04-2…

When the only force that moves landlords is the profit motive, a third of Australian households have to take the long way around to combat climate change. Renters shouldn't be barred from the benefits of solar energy—everyone needs and deserves access!
abc.net.au/news/2024-04-2…

Better Renting's Board is looking for a new Treasurer! If you want to support Better Renting's mission & have experience in finance, accounting or auditing, please apply! More information can be found at the link below; applications will close on 12 May.
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Out of 45,000+ listings:

• 0 were affordable for a renter on youth allowance
• 32 for a renter on DSP
• 289 for a renter working min wage full-time

This isn't sustainable.

Anglicare reports that the govt needs to be building 25K homes/year if they want to ease the crisis.

Better Renting's Board is looking for a new Treasurer! If you want to support Better Renting's mission & have experience in finance, accounting or auditing, please apply! More information can be found at the link below; applications will close on 12 May.
ethicaljobs.com.au/members/better…

the radicalising power of a no-grounds eviction

Great news about WA rental reforms: before you get kicked out with a no-grounds eviction or have to move after a crippling rent increase, you can make things a little homey first!
abc.net.au/news/2024-04-1…

No one, in any kind of housing, should ever have to live in an insect-infested home. Unison community housing residents spent 4+ years being denied help, and now they have to find new places to live. Housing providers have to hold themselves to higher standards than this.

For those who haven't checked it out yet, our Facebook page is also a great place to connect with us! Join your fellow renters for discussions on news and renting stories, and read about some of our past and ongoing projects—we'll see you there!

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The ad says that this property has '2 spacious bedrooms with built in robes' and a 'large study area'. 🤔
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What can a landlord get away with? Charging $875 a week for a mould- and rat-infested hovel of horrors with no internal doors, apparently.

Strong words here from Tenants' Union of NSW on why that's been allowed to happen—'mum and dad' need to be held accountable.

watoday.com.au/property/news/…

When I see a previously empty and unused house is now providing shelter to someone who would otherwise remain homeless

Libertarians: you should be able to do what you want as long as it doesn't harm other people. Government should stay out of the way.
Renters: *start living in empty houses*
Libertarians: ¡no! ¡not like that!

Radical? Australians have a long and storied history of squatters' protests! Here's some sage advice from Mr. McCormack, one of the leaders of a group which squatted on the Cairns Agricultural Show fairgrounds in 1932 until the government agreed to provide better housing:

hope Mick de Brenni is losing as much sleep over stories like this (and the many more in SwelteringCities's Summer Survey and our Cruel Summers report!) as his constituent renters are in these substandard, unbearably hot homes
brisbanetimes.com.au/property/news/…

also super weird that Chris Minns committed to ending unfair evictions BEFORE the election, and now it's over a year AFTER the election and NSW Labor is yet to make the change 🤔

So weird that landlords keep realising they have irredeemably bad tenants immediately after being asked to do some minor home repair 🙃 theguardian.com/australia-news…