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Posted on Thursday, 11 April 2013
The Tenants' Union is quite happy after the Residential Tenancy Amendment Bill passed the Tasmanian House of Assembly last evening after we secured some key last minute concessions. The Bill's last hurdle is to now get through the sometimes unpredictable Legislative Council.
The key sticking points for the Union were all associated with Housing Tasmania properties. The Greens Housing Minister, Cassy O'Connor, was firm in her commitment for continual income and assets test for Housing Tasmania tenancies and a right for Housing Tasmania to evict tenants who are away from their house for more than 8 weeks continuously. The Tenants' Union opposed both measures and sought the deletion of the clauses pertaining to them, but only succeeded in watering the measures down by making the income and assets tests more transparent and making the 8 week absence rule less strict.
The Tenants' Union will now seek meetings with Upper House members with the aim of securing passage of the Bill and scrapping the proposals discussed above.
More discussion on the Bill next week.
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