Renters have a right to housing that is affordable, safe, and secure. It’s time South Australia’s rental laws were updated to reflect this.

More South Australians are renting than ever before, and renter households are feeling the squeeze with a rental affordability and availability crisis alongside a cost-of-living crisis. The demographic of renters is changing with more families renting, people retiring as renters and many people facing the possibility of renting for the rest of their lives.

Now, as the state government reviews the Residential Tenancies Act 1995 for the first time in nearly ten years, there is a critical opportunity to improve South Australia’s renting laws to make renting fair in our state by enacting lasting, positive change to the legislation.

Together, our organisations are calling for significant and meaningful reforms – as listed below - to our residential tenancy laws to ensure all South Australians can access secure and affordable housing.