The Tenants’ Union of Tasmania is a specialist Community Legal Centre for residential tenants. Our aim is to secure the rights of all tenants by providing free legal advice, representation and education, as well as advocating for the improvement of tenants’ rights.
Renting in Tasmania? We provide FREE advice for public and private residential tenants.
We provided a submission to the Inquiry into Homes Tasmania in which we noted that the median renter in Tasmania is paying around $120 per week or more than $6200pa to keep a roof over their head than just 5 years ago! We also highlighted the growing number of homeless particularly amongst younger and older persons and the slow growth in new […]
Do you like our work? You can now make a small (or large) donation to help us do more of it! There are currently 57,762 rental households in Tasmania. Our core business is to provide information, advice and representation to renters when issues regarding their homes arise. In the financial year 2022/23 we helped a […]
We co-wrote a letter to the Department of Justice to raise concerns about the proposed amendments to the Residential Tenancy Regulations 2015. The proposed changes would mean that on-farm workers who receive accommodation as part of their employment could be evicted with no notice if their employment ended. Many of the workers affected are international, […]
The Government is consulting on reforms to the Residential Tenancy Act that will allow renters to have pets and to affix furniture to the wall as well as clarify the law for farm workers. Read our response below.
We offer telephone advice statewide and face-to-face advice in three locations, Hobart, Launceston and Devonport.
Our solicitors and tenancy workers can advise you on how to present your case if you need to go to Court, and in certain circumstances can represent you in Court with your tenancy matter.
We teach about residential tenancy in Tasmania. Any interested group. Introduction to Advanced. Face-to-face and soon online.
We sell leases that comply with Tasmanian residential tenancy law. They can be purchased in Hobart, Launceston and Devonport.
