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In 2005/06 Tenants Advice Service:

Responded to 1,891 direct tenant telephone advice inquiries
Responded to 544 community worker calls
Trained 429 community workers and 172 consumers in matters related to tenancy law
Distributed 21,758 TAS publications
Published 12 tenancy columns in 'The West Australian' newspaper

Median rents in Perth have increased from $189 per week in June 2005 to $250 in September 2006.
REIWA estimates that rents will increase 20% by the end of 2007 - if you are paying $250 in January 2007, by Christmas 2007 you will be paying $300.
According to REIWA (March 2007), the vacancy rates in the metropolitan area has plummeted to just 1%. The previous lowest level was 1.2% back in 1986.
In December 2006 the median house price in Perth was $444,900 - Perth has overtaken Sydney as the least affordable city in Australia (HIA).
First-home owners in Perth needed to spend the highest percentage of their income on mortgage repayments at 36.4%, compared with 36% for buyers in Sydney and 31.3% in Brisbane (December 2007, HIA).
Ongoing decline in State and Federal funding for public housing has led to a continued reduction in housing stock across WA - in 1995/96 public housing accounted for 6% of housing stock in WA but by 2004/05 this had fallen to 4.2%.
Homeswest has seen its priority waiting list increase from 256 a year ago to the current 470 (January 2007).
In 2005 some 85,122 low income households received Commonwealth Rent Assistance to help meet rental costs but nearly one third remained in housing stress after receiving this assistance.
Commonwealth Rent Assistance has risen 8.1% in three years whilst median rents in Perth have risen 33.3%.