What you can do

Tenancy law varies in each State and Territory in Australia. Please visit the appropriate site for information and advice.

The National Association of Renters' Organisations (NARO) recently issued 9 principles to strengthen renters' rights across Australia. View The National Nine.

If you want to help keep the conversation going, here are some conversation starters to have during the summer holiday season:

About how our housing system favours landlords (and homeowners) over tenants:

Regulation and training. What if landlords had to be registered or licensed and pass a training assessment?

Attitudinal shift. What if being a life-long renter was held at the same level of respect as being a homeowner?

Rewarding good landlords. What if landlords who rent to essential workers, provide great service, and great upkeep of a property, were rewarded with tax incentives?

About landlord and property data transparency, and privacy for tenants:

Uneven transparency. What if tenants knew as much about their landlord as their landlord did about them? Or, what if landlords knew as little as tenants know about their landlords?

Privacy. What if landlords didn't even need to know the name of the tenant on application?

Property transparency. What if tenants had information about a property's maintenance history, health issues, sustainability and accessibility features before applying for a lease?

The Know Your Landlord Universe was created by housing researchers at the University of Sydney. This website reports on research funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC). The research was undertaken with ARC Linkage partners, the Tenants Union of NSW, Tenants Queensland and Tenants Victoria.

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which the project was created. We pay our respects and acknowledge their Elders, past and present. We acknowledge that Aboriginal sovereignty has not been ceded. It always was and always will be, Aboriginal land.