#renting — Public Fediverse posts

RentTech companies still asking tenants for personal details ‘completely outside’ new Victorian laws https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/10/renttech-tenants-personal-information-privacy-victorian-laws #Renting #ConsumerAffairs #Housing #Business #Technology #AustraliaNews

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

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/10/renttech-tenants-personal-information-privacy-victorian-laws

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

‘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

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/08/first-nations-families-face-eviction-as-mount-isa-council-sells-homes-ntwnfb

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

‘Forced out with nowhere to go’: First Nations families face eviction as council sells homes over charity’s unpaid rates https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/08/first-nations-families-face-eviction-as-mount-isa-council-sells-homes-ntwnfb #IndigenousAustralians #Queensland #AustraliaNews #Housing #Renting #LidiaThorpe #RuralAndRegionalAustralia

Take a big chunk out of the capitalist neck
An exploration in to the alternative to the landlord/ renter set up.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/04/23/take-a-big-chunk-out-of-the-capitalist-neck/
#HousingCoops #HousingCrisis #NoFaultevictions #RentCaps #renting

Tories set to water down rental reforms after ‘handing control to landlord MPs’
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/tories-set-to-water-down-rental-reforms-after-handing-control-to-landlord-mps/ar-BB1j22W4?cvid=488d69112874429beb6ad63b962333ca&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=18

#Tories
#Landlords
#MPs
#RentalProperties
#Renting
#WhatsApp
#NoFaultEvictions
#NoFaultEvictionBan
#Section21Evictions
#Gove
#BBC
#Rayner
#Sunak
#RentersReformCoaltion
#GenerationRentGroup
#Landlords
#LandlordsBillOfRights
#RentersReformBill

I am facing my second no-fault eviction in two years. Renting is broken | openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/renting-no-fault-evictions-housing-london/

#NoFaultEvictions
#Renting
#Section21Evictions
#SocialHousing
#PrivateRentalSector

For a yearly fee as low as ¥30,000, some renters find fixer-upper akiya homes too sweet a deal to refuse. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2023/11/18/lifestyle/akiya-renting-kochi/?utm_content=buffer4b458&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #life #lifestyle #akiya #countryside #renting

How Britain’s squalid housing crisis hits Black and Asian tenants hardest | The Independent
#HousingCrisis
#Black
#Asian
#SqualidHousing
#Racism
#Renting
#Evictions
#NonWhite
#ForcedEviction
#Mould
#Labour
#Gove
#Tories
#NoFaultEvictions
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mould-asthma-housing-association-london-b2327203.html

Diane Abbott perfectly sums up what’s wrong with the rental market and bad landlords - Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
#Abbott
#Renting
#NoFaultEvictions
#Tories
#Labour
https://leftfootforward.org/2023/04/diane-abbott-perfectly-sums-up-whats-wrong-with-the-rental-market-and-bad-landlords/