As long-awaited reforms edge closer to reality, we examine some of the key issues and what changes may mean for renters and landlords.
Three years after changes to Western Australia's tenancy laws were proposed — and in a rental market distorted by pandemic impacts — new legislation to boost tenants' rights appears to be edging closer to reality.
Alice Pennycott, principal lawyer for tenancy at Circle Green Community Legal, said existing laws included grounds for landlords to evict tenants for a variety of reasons. "We don't want it to be a case where landlords don't have that option at all. What we're saying is that they should have to demonstrate what that [reason] is."
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