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New legislation is being introduced to change the powers of police in variety of ways.

Homeless Connect is an excellent initiative focused on linking people who are homeless to vital services and support. The volunteer-run, not-for-profit initiative culminates in an annual one-day event, held this year on 3 June at Sydney Town Hall.

Public housing tenants must report all household income, financial assets and property ownership to Housing NSW.

There has been a 26 per cent rise in the number of people sleeping rough in the past year.

An alarming number of tenants have contacted Redfern Legal Centre after having been locked out of their homes by the building management of Regis Towers, an apartment block in Sydney’s CBD and the largest strata plan building in Australia.

On 1 January 2014 many of the tribunals in New South Wales combined to become the New South Wales Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT).

The New South Wales Government has passed further law and order legislation, with highly publicised mandatory sentencing legislation expected to follow now that parliament has resumed.

Two months before Barry O’Farrell announced the ‘one punch’ laws, he passed a different law that expands police powers to arrest without warrant.

Tenants of the Regis Towers apartment block near Sydney's Chinatown complained that their electronic access swipe keys had been cancelled for minor infringements, effectively locking them out of their own flats...

Angry tenants are being locked out of their homes unless they pay $150 to get their security access cards back after draconian bylaws were passed at one of Sydney's biggest apartment complexes.