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RLC's Inner Sydney Tenants' Advice and Advocacy Service won several awards at the Tenants' Advice and Advocacy Program Network Meeting.

Redfern Legal Centre, together with the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council, Wirringa Baiya Aboriginal Women's Legal Centre and the Mudgin-gal Aboriginal Women's Centre announce a forum on 15 September 2011.

As part of National Homelessness Week, RLC launched its new Boarders and Lodgers Legal Kit at Parliament House.

As part of National Homeless Persons Week, Redfern Legal Centre launched their new Boarders Legal Kit. The Lord Mayor Clover Moore MP, who funded the kit through her Lord Mayor Salary Trust, launched the kit.

Jacqui Swinburne, Tenancy Coordinatory, spoke to ABC Triple J Program, Students' O-Week Special on Sharing House.

I sympathise with Michael Texilake's concerns (Letters, July 20), but many of his complaints can effectively be dealt with by existing legal remedies where the conduct is threatening or excessive. A more effective short-term solution to "music, burn-outs, fights and all-night public rampages" may be found in the Summary Offences Act and the Protection of the Environment Operations Act.

The RLC Tenancy Service appeared in, Sometimes, two into one won't go, Sydney Morning Herald.

Joanna Shulman, CEO, appeared on Lateline Rent rises flow on to affect the homeless.

Elizabeth Morley, Principal Solicitor, Eliminate unfair practices from the credit industry, Sydney Morning Herald.

As rent goes up and housing affordability declines, more and more people are turning to share housing to help make ends meet, with many of them becoming sub-tenants.