Renting

Politics & Society
Opinion
The amount of personal info Australian renters have to hand over is ‘staggering’
Many renters have little choice but to hand over excessive amounts of personal information when they apply for properties. While some states and territories are making moves to address this, others are lagging behind.

Health & Medicine
Your cold house is bad for your mental health
New research finds that the poorest Australians in the worst health are living in the coldest homes during Australian winter and it’s putting their mental health at risk

Environment
How our housing can make it feel like an Arctic winter
Australia’s housing just isn’t good enough when it comes to dealing with winter temperatures – we need to take lessons from the Northern Hemisphere