‘We’re not ready to leave’: Inside the messy dynamic of a no-grounds eviction<\/a><\/p>\nEvicting a tenant without cause offers landlords a simple way out, but the issue can be much more complex than it appears. One such example of that complexity is Eleanor Kahlo’s case of her no-grounds eviction.<\/p>\n
Former premier Mark McGowan and commerce minister Sue Ellery previously argued that outlawing the practice could drive investment away from the state and compound housing supply issues.<\/p>\n
“We’re just ensuring that we have a commonsense approach,” Dr Buti said.<\/p>\n
“Ensuring there’s a balance between the rights and obligations of landlords and tenants.”<\/p>\n
Former renter Le, who did not want her last name revealed for privacy reasons, was given a no-grounds lease termination notice last year, after her landlord raised the rent by $50 a week.<\/p>\n
Le questioned a clause in her new contract that would prevent her from being home during inspections.<\/p>\n
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Le was evicted from her home on no grounds last year. (ABC News: Cason Ho)<\/p>\n
“Five days later, I got the termination notice, and it gave me 30 days to get out,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Many people have it worse than I have, but it’s stressful for all of us. Every single person who’s renting really just has no stability.<\/p>\n
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Le feels the announcement will have a big impact on renters. (ABC News: Cason Ho)<\/p>\n
“I think there’s more changes that need to happen to allow people to rent and be comfortable, but I think it’s a really good step in the right way.”<\/p>\n
Landlords will still be allowed to evict tenants for specific reasons, for example, for damaging a property, or for consistently failing to pay rent.<\/p>\n
Industry concerns<\/p>\n
Real Estate Institute of WA (REIWA) president Suzanne Brown said she was concerned about the announcement’s impact on investments in the private housing market.<\/p>\n
“Our main concern is that we feel it will further impact supply,” she told 102.5 ABC Perth.<\/p>\n
“We’ve already seen a mass exodus of investors post-COVID, and we’re still operating below the supply peak that we hit in 2021, so we’re dealing with five years of really low supply.”<\/p>\n
But Anglicare WA chief executive Mark Glasson said there was little evidence nationally that outlawing no-grounds evictions impacted private investments.<\/p>\n
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Anglicare CEO Mark Glasson. (ABC News: Lauren Smith)<\/p>\n
“You’ve got plenty of grounds still available to evict people who are problematic tenants,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We know that the use of no-grounds evictions has been weaponised by some landlords … and it’s also prevented people from asking for reasonable improvements to their houses.”<\/p>\n
Speaking at a press conference later on Monday, Dr Buti said there had been enough time to monitor how other state and territory markets reacted to their bans.<\/p>\n
“We’ve closely examined what’s happened in other states when they’ve removed no-grounds termination, and it appears the market hasn’t been affected.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No-grounds evictions will be banned in Western Australia in what the state government is describing as a “commonsense…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,313647,313652,44,313644,313646,313651,313645,313649,313650,313648],"class_list":["post-648080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-does-wa-have-no-grounds-evictions","tag-is-it-easy-to-find-a-rental-in-perth","tag-news","tag-no-grounds-evictions","tag-no-grounds-evictions-in-wa","tag-perth-rental-market","tag-rental-market-in-western-australia","tag-wa-housing-market","tag-wa-rental-market","tag-what-states-have-no-grounds-evictions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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