Public Housing Tenants Fight to End No-grounds Eviction

Two Indigenous public housing tenants facing homelessness have launched legal challenges against the Western Australian (WA) government over their evictions. Lawyers for the pair will argue the Department of Communities’ use of no-grounds evictions and fixed-term public housing tenancies denies procedural fairness and is legally unreasonable. The outcome could have ramifications for more than 1000 public housing tenants on fixed-term tenancies, all of whom could be evicted from their home with no-grounds evictions. Lawyer Kate Davis said WA is the only Australian jurisdiction still using no-grounds evictions against public housing tenants. “We’ve got a real problem in this state of evictions of families from public housing and the consequences are devastating,” she told reporters on April 19....