Monday 6th October is International Tenants’ Day (ITD).
The theme this year is: Safe, secure, affordable renting – Everyone deserves a place to call home. During the week Tenants Queensland is celebrating with renters across the state by holding a number of public events where we’d love to see you. Click here for details.
The events offer the chance to talk with us and other tenancy support services. Some include live entertainment, coffee, food, mural paintings and a lucky door prize.
You can read the ITD statement from International Union of Tenants (IUT) here. The IUT calls on national governments across the globe to confront the urban housing crisis with bold, systemic action. The IUT urges governments to adopt national targets that prevent housing cost overburden, with a benchmark of no more than 25% of disposable income spent on rent.
In Queensland, relentless and unaffordable rent increases, often well above CPI, keep vulnerable Queenslanders in rental stress and put them at risk of homelessness. Unchecked rent increases leave our renting households with difficult choices between trying to maintain an unaffordable rent or moving and risking homelessness. The impacts can be irreversible and long lasting.
TQ continues to advocate for a limit to annual rent increase that is no more than the CPI, as well as minimum energy standards and removing the end of a fixed term as a reason to end a tenancy. Everyone deserves a safe and stable place to call home, it truly is a human right.