Evictions ramping up with worse to come, tenants groups warn
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Renters across Victoria are being ordered from their homes by their landlords in a wave of evictions after COVID-19 tenancy protections ended last week.
No hard data is yet available on the after-effects of lifting the state government’s rental moratorium, but tenants’ advocacy groups, legal services and the real estate peak body are reporting an increase in notices to vacate, as well as demands for unpaid rent, and they’re warning of worse to come.
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âItâs making people bolderâ: The âreassessmentâ of life after lockdown
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As president of the Real Estate Institute of Victoria, Leah Calnan spends a lot of her day thinking about where we want to call home. But in the last 12 months she and her family, like so many Victorians, have found the pandemic is breaking down the separation between professional and personal lives.
âCOVID has absolutely created the ability for people to reassess life and that has come in different forms: reviewing the size of their mortgage, the location of where they live, the size of the property they live in. The deeper question has been, âIs this actually where I want to live for the next seven to 10 years?â [the typical period people spend per dwelling],â Calnan says.
Published January 19, 2021
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