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  1. RentTech companies still asking tenants for personal details ‘completely outside’ new Victorian laws
    By Catie McLeod Consumer affairs reporter

    Some rental platforms encourage hopeful tenants to share ‘excessive’ amount of information, Consumer Policy Research Centre review finds

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    #Renting #Consumeraffairs #Housing #Business #Technology #Australianews #TheGuardian #CatieMcLeodConsumeraffairsreporter

  2. ‘Forced out with nowhere to go’: First Nations families face eviction as council sells homes over charity’s unpaid rates
    By Douglas Smith

    Mount Isa city council to auction off first of 24 homes after Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporation for Welfare Services accrues almost $1m in unpaid debts

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    #IndigenousAustralians #Queensland #Australianews #Housing #Renting #LidiaThorpe #RuralandregionalAustralia #TheGuardian #DouglasSmith

  3. Home ownership is always framed as being about building wealth; that viewpoint inevitably leads to higher housing costs and a poorer working class (because treating housing as an investment drives up housing costs).

    The true advantage to home ownership is the financial stability it brings. When #renting you are subject to inflationary increases, which means your housing costs do not remain stable, however when you own your home costs remain relatively stable for 25-30 years and then plummet once your mortgage is paid off.

    The largest financial challenge of home ownership is putting enough aside each month to cover the maintenance and repair costs associated with ownership; the ones that a #landlord is supposed to cover if you rent, although many landlords shirk that responsibility. The easiest way for a home owner to deal with this is to put a small amount aside each month to cover both the unexpected repairs that crop up and the high cost maintenance
    projects as stuff wears out.

    #homeownership

  4. CW: Renting, living conditions

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    I'm lucky to have a split-system (poorly positioned in one room). Didn't use it recently and living space hit 32C easily.

    My kitchen extractor fan goes straight into the roof space, and that temperature comes in unhindered (open plan living space). I'm currently too scared to email to ask if I can install a back-draught stopper (at my own expense) because I don't want to be a bother.

    I also don't have an in-tact front screen door, so can't get a good cross breeze when it cools down. But my kitchen does get windy when there's a gusty change, so that probably counts for something. The same in winter, cold gusts of air come through the fan... (recorded a low of 11C last winter without the heating on).

    I'm fortunate to have the option to turn on heating/cooling, and to be able to afford it mostly. But it'd be better if there was some basic insulation too.

    It'd also be great if property managers didn't always regard tenants as a hassle and a trouble. #renting #landlords #owners #LivingConditions #IndoorTemperature

  5. CW: Renting, living conditions

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    I'm lucky to have a split-system (poorly positioned in one room). Didn't use it recently and living space hit 32C easily.

    My kitchen extractor fan goes straight into the roof space, and that temperature comes in unhindered (open plan living space). I'm currently too scared to email to ask if I can install a back-draught stopper (at my own expense) because I don't want to be a bother.

    I also don't have an in-tact front screen door, so can't get a good cross breeze when it cools down. But my kitchen does get windy when there's a gusty change, so that probably counts for something. The same in winter, cold gusts of air come through the fan... (recorded a low of 11C last winter without the heating on).

    I'm fortunate to have the option to turn on heating/cooling, and to be able to afford it mostly. But it'd be better if there was some basic insulation too.

    It'd also be great if property managers didn't always regard tenants as a hassle and a trouble. #renting #landlords #owners #LivingConditions #IndoorTemperature

  6. CW: Renting, living conditions

    theguardian.com/australia-news

    I'm lucky to have a split-system (poorly positioned in one room). Didn't use it recently and living space hit 32C easily.

    My kitchen extractor fan goes straight into the roof space, and that temperature comes in unhindered (open plan living space). I'm currently too scared to email to ask if I can install a back-draught stopper (at my own expense) because I don't want to be a bother.

    I also don't have an in-tact front screen door, so can't get a good cross breeze when it cools down. But my kitchen does get windy when there's a gusty change, so that probably counts for something. The same in winter, cold gusts of air come through the fan... (recorded a low of 11C last winter without the heating on).

    I'm fortunate to have the option to turn on heating/cooling, and to be able to afford it mostly. But it'd be better if there was some basic insulation too.

    It'd also be great if property managers didn't always regard tenants as a hassle and a trouble. #renting #landlords #owners #LivingConditions #IndoorTemperature