Landlords in the nation’s capital will be allowed to evict tenants only for government-approved reasons after Labor and the Greens passed its no-cause eviction laws.
Attorney-General Shane Rattenbury said the move was designed to deal with the challenging rental market in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).
“We have heard from the community that no-cause evictions have a profoundly negative impact on renters, either because of the eviction itself, or because it stops renters being able to raise other legitimate concerns out of fear of eviction,” Rattenbury said in a statement released hours after the amendments passed the ACT Legislative Assembly….