Publications - Tenancy & Housing
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Brochures
04 September 2013
Get in touch with our tenancy advice and advocacy service.
eBulletins
06 December 2018
Our December eBulletin looks at the devastating impact of public housing redevelopment on local...
29 March 2018
Protecting Renters' Rights: Spotlight on Housing & Homelessness.
Legal Tool Kits
12 June 2019
The Repair Kit is a legal guide for people living in Public Housing in NSW.
20 June 2018
Boarding Houses and the Law is a legal guide for people living in boarding houses in NSW. It explains the...
27 August 2012
Each year, more and more people move into a share house. Now in its third edition, The Share...
Media Releases
07 July 2016
5 July 2016
Redfern Legal Centre welcome the reforms to the Residential Tenancy Act ...
17 December 2014
The NSW Ombudsman has upheld a complaint against Housing NSW made by Redfern Legal Centre.
20 January 2014
A significant number of tenants have been denied access to their homes in Regis Towers, a large apartment...
22 July 2013
Today, Redfern Legal Centre has lodged a complaint with the NSW Ombudsman regarding Housing NSW's ongoing...
04 August 2011
As part of National Homeless Persons Week, Redfern Legal Centre launched their new Boarders Legal Kit. ...
11 June 2010
As rent goes up and housing affordability declines, more and more people are turning to share housing to...
Papers & Journals
25 September 2018
RLC's Inner Sydney Tenants' Advice and Advocacy Service (ISTAAS) provides responses to the ...
18 August 2015
Submissions
12 February 2021
In December 2020, RLC's tenancy team made submissions to the Follow-up Review of the Management of Public...
25 January 2021
In January 2021, RLC made submissions to the Audit Office of NSW Responses to Homelessness audit –...
10 November 2017
In this submission, Redfern Legal Centre (RLC) addresses a Bill to allow Centrelink to make deductions...
12 April 2016
With the review of the Residential Tenancies Act 2010 still ongoing, RLC is pushing for law...
12 February 2016
It has been five years since the Residential Tenancies Act 2010 (NSW) (RTA) came into force and it is now...
01 February 2016
Redfern Legal Centre has assisted many public housing tenants to get repairs carried out in their homes...
20 February 2015
22 August 2014
RLC welcomes the opportunity to make a submission in response to the Legislative Assembly Inquiry...
14 April 2014
Our submission is grounded in our experience with tenants in the Sydney area, and will focus primarily on...
09 May 2013
Redfern Legal Centre has been working with and advocating for tenants at risk of homelessness for over 20...
15 April 2013
Redfern Legal Centre has been campaigning for legislative protection for boarders and lodgers and other...
10 August 2012
Redfern Legal Centre has been campaigning for legislative protection for boarders and lodgers and other...
05 October 2011
In this submission we argued that the introduction of laws to cover people that fall outside of the...
28 February 2011
RLC has a long history of providing legal advice to our local community, with one of our key areas of...
Videos
15 July 2014
Terence is a Housing NSW tenant who had been living in a property riddled with mould and damp for years....
05 June 2014
RLC Tenant Advocate, Tom McDonald, was on the ABC’s program, The Checkout, giving...