The following archived papers may be
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Policy & Law Reform Archive
A Better Lease On Life (2010) National Shelter
A National Shelter report providing an outline of a reform agenda to improve tenants' rights frameworks across Australia (April 2010).
Accommodating Everyone (2009) Equal Opportunity Commission
An inquiry into whether
persons from diverse backgrounds and
Aboriginal people are
being discriminated
against in the
private housing rental market (June 2009)
Tenancy Issues for Humanitarian Entrants (2008) Tenants Advice Service, Shelter & Edmund Rice Centre A Joint Community Sector Report : 'Gaps In Housing & Support Services for Humanitarian Entrants'.
Why
Won't Tenants Exercise Their Rights? (2006) Tenants Advice Service The realities of the current rental market in Perth. Report
by the Tenants Advice Service (October 2006).
Housing
Strategy WA : Response (2006) Tenants Advice Service
Response of the Tenants Advice Service to Discussion Draft
of the Housing Strategy WA. (February 2006)
Boarding
and Lodging Houses (2005) WA Tenancy Network & Tenants Advice Service
A study of the market, law and options for reform in Western
Australia (December 2005).
Finding
A Place (2004) Equal Opportunity Commission
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 (2003) Auditor General of WA
Report by the Auditor General of WA into the maintenance of
public housing (October 2003).
Journey
to Justice (2003) Tenants Advice Service
Tenants Advice Service submission to the Equal Opportunity
Commission’s inquiry into the provision of public housing
to Indigenous people in WA (May 2003).
Submission to the RTA Review (2002) Tenants Advice Service
Final submission by TAS to the review of the Residential Tenancies
Act 1987 (December 2002).