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Stronger Tenancies Research Report.
The
Stronger Tenancies Project has researched the needs and issues of new
and emerging communities in relation to a range of services and
supports that help to strengthen and sustain tenancies. Project
findings highlight the housing needs of new and emerging communities
with an emphasis on how services can be strengthened to achieve better
housing outcomes. Copy of the report is available here. (569kb)
Stronger Tenancies Project:
This project emerges from concerns that culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) people and particularly new and emerging communities, experience challenges and barriers to knowing and advocating their rights and responsibilities as tenants. There are three main components to the project:
- Conduct an international/national literature review about the issues and to identify leading practices
- Conduct interviews with people from CALD communities and new and emerging communities
- Conduct action research providing ten households with advice, information and advocacy in the process of establishing or retrieving a tenancy
(details in the Fact Sheet).
Community Partners in Tenancy Project
This project aims to further develop and deliver tenant
community education activities for particular new and emerging
communities living in the residential rental sector: the Sudanese,
Rwandan and Burundi communities. It consolidates the work of
the Community Partners in Tenancy Project (Stage 1) which was funded by
the Residential Tenancies Authority (RTA) in 2006-07. The particular community education model relies on:
- training
a number of community partners in tenancy law and tenant advocacy (the
accredited training is delivered by the Tenants Union of Qld)
- providing the community partners with paid work experience in mainstream Tenant Advice and Advocacy Services (TAASs)
- resourcing
and supporting the TAASs to take concrete measures to improve their
accessibility to people from CALD backgrounds, particularly those from
new and emerging communities
- resourcing
the community partners to deliver tenancy education to the Sudanese,
Rwandan and Burundi communities in a number of community languages and
- building collaborative partnerships between ECCQ and ethno-specific communities and mainstream tenant advice services.
The Community Partners in Tenancy Project commenced in January and concluded in May 2008.
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