Renters United's report on tenants' experiences paints a picture of some renters feeling trapped in an existence of instability in poor-quality rental houses.
The People's Review of Renting contains anonymised extracts from 610 renters' experiences, crowdsourced by the Action Station online platform.
Some of the stories - assuming them to be true - suggest that despite tenants being able to take complaints to the Tenancy Tribunal, some landlords are not living up to their legal duty to supply homes fit for human habitation.
Renters United claims that landlord abuses are possible because, as housing academic Philippa-Howden-Chapman said: "Tenants worry that if they complain their rents will rise or they could be evicted."
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/96058296/Renters-v-Landlords-The-horror-stories-from-Renters-United-report
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