Boarding House Act 2012 Parliamentary review
BOARDING HOUSES

The Boarding Houses Act 2012 is undergoing review,  public feedback and suggestions are being collected to guide the review process. To learn about the Act, there is a summary below, and a more detailed guide to the Act is available in the Discussion Paper in the right column. The Easy English Discussion Paper covers the same material, in an easier-to-access format. Both of these papers provide points that are intended to stimulate discussion and ideas, to start the process of creating your submission. Submission methods are located at the bottom of the page.
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In October 2012, the Parliament of New South Wales (NSW) passed the Boarding Houses Act 2012 (NSW), as a central part of its bid to strengthen and regulate boarding houses in NSW. 

Newtown Neighbourhood Centre was a partner in a five year evaluation study of the Act with  two Universities- initially, the University of Western Sydney and subsequently the Australian Catholic University.  The Evaluation study project objectives were to:

• assess the effect of the Act on the well-being of residents of boarding houses;
• assess whether the rights of residents are better protected;
• determine the effect of the Act on the sustainability of the boarding house sector;  and
• determine levels of collaboration between departments, agencies and community organisations that work with the boarding house sector.

The final phase of the evaluation was undertaken and was published in early 2018. 

Feedback and Suggestions
You can submit to the review process through the following methods:

•  Filling out a submission form at www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/consultation-tool/review-of-the-boarding-houses-act
•  Send an email submission to boardinghousesreview@finance.nsw.gov.au
•  via the Have Your Say website at www.haveyoursay.nsw.gov.au by scrolling and clicking on the Boarding Houses Review link.
•  Sending a letter to the address:

                                     Statutory Review of The Boarding Houses Act 2012
                                     Policy & Regulation, Department of Customer Services
                                     McKell Building
                                     2-24 Rawson Place
                                     Sydney
                                     NSW 2000

The closing date for submissions is COB Tuesday 8 October 2019

Boarding Houses Act Review Discussion Paper

Boarding Houses Act Review Discussion Paper (Easy English)

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For further reading

Shelter NSW - Boarding Houses Report,​ July 2019

Boarding Houses Research Report 2019

Final Report on the Boarding Houses Evaluation Project 

Boarding House Evaluation Project Final Report

​Please contact us on 9509 1800 or admin@newtowncentre.org