Review of Renting - Submission Writing Night - Newtown
Kia ora koutou,
Join us to write your submission on the
Review of Renting
5:30pm, Tuesday 18 September, Newtown
Community & Cultural Centre
With a speaker from Renters
United
Snacks and drinks provided
Please share on
Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/events/
And
please forward to your networks
The Government recently announced their review of tenancy laws. They've put out a discussion document and they're calling for submissions. You can fill in their Residential Tenancies Act reform survey online or you can write your own submission.
Renters United are encouraging us to write our own submissions, telling our own stories about what renting is really like and pushing for the changes that Renters United have outlined in their Plan to Fix Renting. The Plan to Fix Renting calls for stable homes, fair rent, safe and healthy homes, and meaningful enforcement (e.g. changing the Tenancy Tribunal to an investigative model and anonymising tenants in the Tribunal rulings so renters are not deterred from standing up for their rights).
So this is an invitation to come along to an evening of writing submissions together.
Who: Any renters in
Wellington
What: Hear from Renters
United and local renters, then write your own submission -
including your own stories of
renting.
Where: Newtown Community &
Cultural Centre, cnr Rintoul and Colombo Sts, Newtown,
Wellington
When: 5:30 - 7:00pm, Tuesday
18 September
Why: It's more fun to
write submissions together. Let's get together as renters.
Please share the word, invite your
friends.
How: we'll provide paper and a
few laptops and hopefully a submission guide. We'll have
copies of the Plan to Fix Renting, and the Government's
review document. You can write a submission on the night, or
just hear from the speakers on your way home from work and
take away the info to write a submission later (Submissions
are due by 21 October, by email to RTAreform@mbie.govt.nz)
Snacks
and drinks provided.
Kids welcome (sorry for the less
than ideal timing!)
For more info on the submission
writing night, please contact
frances(dot)mountier(at)gmail(
For more info on Renters
United and the Plan to Fix Writing, please contact
info(at)rentersunited(dot)org(
Nga mihi, hope to see you on the 18 September
Frances Mountier & James
Barber
Newtown renters and Renters United
supporters