Dealing with Tenancy Issues for People with Disability in Queensland

Online Session No.2 of the Opening the Door Queensland Disability & Housing Forum

Event date: Wednesday 27th July 2022, from 11:00am - 12:30pm

Registrations close Tuesday 26th July at 8:00pm

This is a free online event for people with disability, their families, and carers, and others who are interested.

'Dealing with Tenancy Issues for People with Disability in Queensland’ is a panel presentation and discussion on tenants’ rights in Queensland.

We will discuss tenancy issues for those in the private housing rental market, and public, social and affordable housing, as well as supported independent living houses. This includes how people can get assistance. Presenters to include representatives from community legal services, and the social housing sector.

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'Dealing with Tenancy Issues for People with Disability in Queensland’ is one of a series of sessions being delivered through the Opening the Door project for Queensland. Other online sessions include a session on pathways to housing, and one on NDIS Home & Living Supports. Online sessions will be recorded to view after the events.

These will be followed by face-to-face workshops in Brisbane and Cairns in the week beginning 1 August.

You can register for these other sessions via links provided at https://riaustralia.org/opening-the-door-project/.

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Accessibility & Reasonable Adjustments:

If you need assistance or reasonable adjustments to participate please provide details when registering.

Please note that we need a minimum of five business days' notice to book some types of supports, including AUSLAN interpreting.

Please contact projectofficer@riaustralia.org with any queries or requests.

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More about the Opening the Door project

The Opening the Door project aims to support people with disability to achieve choice and control with their housing options through:

Developing and sharing online resources
Forums designed to both share information and gather experiences
Support existing and establish new peer networks.

The project is for all people with disability regardless of their type of disability or age, and whether they are a participant in the NDIS or not.

For more information go to https://riaustralia.org/opening-the-door-project/.

Project Partners:

Rights & Inclusion Australia, National Shelter, Enliven Community and the state & territory members of National Shelter

Local Partner: Q Shelter

This project is being funded under the Australian Government’s Information, Linkages & Capacity Building program.

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Privacy:

Rights & Inclusion Australia (R&IA) will have access to all information that you submit when you register to attend this event. We will be using this for the following purposes only:

To coordinate your attendance at the event, and provide you with additional resources related to the event
To issue surveys to people who register to attend this event. These will be voluntary to complete. They will assist the Opening the Door project to make sure that the project is best able to assist people with disability towards their housing goals. R&IA will issue a separate Participation Information Statement with all surveys.

R&IA's Privacy Policy can be viewed here.

Humanitix's privacy policy for people registering to attend this event can be viewed at https://events.humanitix.com/pdfs/humanitix_privacy_policy.pdf