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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.

The impulsive need to condemn is a reaction to our inability to describe why riots happen in some disadvantaged areas and not others. We should be making a concerted effort to separate the process of identifying and punishing criminal acts from understanding why they happen, particularly on a large scale. Instead we get the constant insistence that people are rational moral actors — and that violence has no place in a reasonable society.

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.

David Porter, Solicitor, Greater police powers unfair to ill, homeless, Sydney Morning Herald.

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

Joanna Shulman, Executive Officer, Alcohol-free zones don't go far enough, Sydney Morning Herald.

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.

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.