Public Housing Tenants Fight to End No-grounds Eviction

Members of the public queue outside the Supreme Court of Western Australia in Perth, Australia on Sep. 24, 2020. Photo by Will Russell/Getty Images

Two Indigenous public housing tenants facing homelessness have launched legal challenges against the Western Australian (WA) government over their evictions.

Lawyers for the pair will argue the Department of Communities’ use of no-grounds evictions and fixed-term public housing tenancies denies procedural fairness and is legally unreasonable.