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A Better Lease On Life - Improving Australia's Tenancy Law
A National Shelter Report prepared by it's member organisation the National Association of Tenant Organisations, Penny Carr and Maria Tennant. (April 2010)
Getting By... Getting Ahead
A guide to concessions and other ways of keeping costs down with a comprehensive directory of services. Document by Ruah Community Services. (March 2010)
Accommodating Everyone
An inquiry into whether
persons from culturally
and linguistically diverse backgrounds and
Aboriginal people are
being discriminated
against on the basis of
their race either directly
or indirectly in the
private housing rental market. (December 2009)
Tenancy Issues For Humanitarian Entrants
A Joint Community Sector Report : 'Gaps In Housing & Support Services for Humanitarian Entrants'. (2008)
Why
Won't Tenants Exercise Their Rights?
The realities of the current rental market in Perth. Report
by the Tenants Advice Service. (October 2006)
Housing
Strategy WA - Response
Response of the Tenants Advice Service to Discussion Draft
of the Housing Strategy WA. (February 2006)
Boarding
and Lodging Houses
A study of the market, law and options for reform in Western
Australia.
(December 2005)
Finding
A Place (5 MB download)
Report by the Equal Opportunity Commission into the existence
of discriminatory practices in relation to the provision of
public housing and related services to aboriginal People in
WA. (December 2004)
A
Roof Over Our Heads
Report by the Auditor General of WA into the maintenance of
public housing. (August 2003)
Journey
to Justice
Tenants Advice Service submission to the Equal Opportunity
Commission’s inquiry into the provision of public housing
to Indigenous people in WA.
(May 2003)
TAS’
submission to the RTA review
Final submission by TAS to the review of the Residential Tenancies
Act 1987. (December 2002)
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POLICY & LAW REFORM PAPERS