News and Events

5 July 2016 Redfern Legal Centre welcome the reforms to the Residential Tenancy Act affecting domestic violence victims.

RLC has spent many years advocating for public housing tenants waiting for basic repairs to be done on their homes. The lack of action they experience, even after correct procedure is followed, can be detrimental to people’s health and wellbeing.

SBS speaks to Tenants' Advocate about how RLC can assist renters with issues relating to damage caused by Sydney's wild storms.

2 June 2016 In this federal election, for the first time, housing will matter - If you live in Sydney and care about housing come to Shelter's housing election forum.

Last week the City of Sydney Council motioned to grant the Redfern Legal Centre $100,000 over a 24 month period to provide legal resources for tenants in the Waterloo public housing redevelopment.

With the review of the Residential Tenancies Act 2010 still ongoing, RLC is pushing for law reform to protect all residents living in share housing.

14 March 2016 Originally published in the South Sydney Herald. In December last year, just before Christmas, the state government announced a plan to redevelop the Waterloo area over the next 20 years.

There is such a battle to find somewhere to rent – the competition, the cost, the community you want to live in. But what if the colour of your skin made it even harder to rent?

21 December 2015 New anti-social behaviour tenancy laws for social housing tenants came into effect on 18 December 2015.

21 December 2015 Following the decision to build a new train station at Waterloo, rather than at the University of Sydney, the NSW Government have announced plans to redevelop a large area of the local social housing.