FDV Toolkit Overview
Resource for Community Housing Providers
The Purpose of this Toolkit
This toolkit is to help educate and provide needed information about the reform to tenancy legislation regarding Family and Domestic Violence (FDV) to community housing providers in Western Australia. This toolkit will provide a range of materials and resources for community housing providers to draw from when faced with a situation which may involve the inclusion of family and domestic violence under the Residential Tenancies Act 1987.
What is Family and Domestic Violence
Clear explanation of what family and domestic violence is and the forms it takes.
Changes to the Act
Summary of how the Residential Tenancies Act has changed to include FDV and why the Act changed.
What these changes mean for tenants
Tenants can now go, stay, secure and/or resolve.
What these changes mean for community housing providers
Changes to the Act present many benefits to community housing providers.
