The International community has now chimed in with their concerns over funding cuts to every free tenant advice service, including the Tenants’ Union of Queensland, across the state. Tenant advice services are funded under the Tenant Advice and Advocacy (TAAS) program and were given 3 months’ notice of discontinuation of funding, ending on October 31.

Last week the International Union of Tenants’ (IUT), based in Sweden, wrote to Premier Newman expressing a strong view that funding to tenant advice services should not be cut. Continue reading →

A regional domestic violence organisation says funding cuts to their local tenant advice service will leave women and children in the lurch.  Whilst the DV service provides short term accommodation and support, they rely on tenant advisors to assist women with previous tenancy situations as well as with their re-entry into the private rental or social housing market.

Tenant advice services assist women and their children with their journey back into stable long term accommodation.  But more than that, these services assist many people, women and men, before they lose their rental home and aim to prevent homelessness. Continue reading →

See what Real Estate Excellence Academy had to say  http://bit.ly/NAIoHo

The Queensland government recently cut funding to all 23 free tenant advice services statewide effective October 31, despite  the majority of funding for them coming from interest generated on tenants’ bonds and not from taxpayer monies.

The Tenants’ Union of Queensland (TUQ) will lose 60% of its resources and 22 local tenant advice services statewide will close if the decision is not reversed. Qld tenants will virtually be left with no free tenant advice services. Your help is needed NOW. Continue reading →