If you live in public housing, what rights do you have to stay in your home?
- Written by Bill Swannie, Senior Lecturer, Thomas More Law School, Australian Catholic University
Around 544,000 people live in public housing in Australia. And there’s huge demand for more: 169,000 households are waiting for public housing, up almost 10% from a decade earlier.
But what happens when a state government decides to move public housing tenants? Do tenants have any legal rights to stay?
Several court cases – including a ne...







