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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).

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.

A significant number of tenants have been denied access to their homes in Regis Towers, a large apartment block on Castlereagh Street, Sydney.

On 30 July 2013 the Auditor-General released his report Making the Best Use of Public Housing.

On 1 December 2013 NSW Fair Trading launched a new dispute resolution service for tenants in NSW.

Tenant Advocate Tom McDonald won the People’s Choice Award at the 2013 TAAP (Tenants’ Advice and Advocacy Program) Awards.

In September 2013, Housing NSW sent out notices to public housing tenants to tell them that their rent is being increased. The increases are up to $300 per week. The increases apply only to tenants who pay market rent.