The State Government is undertaking the first comprehensive review of the Residential Tenancies Act 1995 since 2014. The paper developed by Consumer Business Services outlines proposed reforms to improve the rental market, ranging from bonds and housing standards to evictions and water billing. 

Our submission provides evidence-based policy options across the proposed reforms and highlights issues that are yet to be addressed, supported by best practice tenancy reforms in other jurisdictions. The key asks include abolishing 'no grounds' evictions and prescribing fair grounds, removing blanket 'no pet' bans from the Act, establishing minimum energy efficiency standards for all rental homes, and prescribing limits for rent increases. 

Uniting Communities will continue to play a key role in the Act review process and rental reform, as an unprecedented housing crisis unfolds across South Australia.