What is a Tenancy Guarantee?
A Tenancy Guarantee can help people into a private rental property by offering a financial ‘security’ to the landlord. This may encourage the landlord to rent a property to someone they might otherwise refuse. A Tenancy Guarantee can help people who don’t have rental references or who are listed on a tenant database.
What does the Tenancy Guarantee offer?
A Tenancy Guarantee can provide compensation of up to $1,000 (including GST) to a landlord or agent for unpaid rent or property damage if it comes to more than the rental bond.
Who can apply for a Tenancy Guarantee?
To be offered a Tenancy Guarantee, you must:
- meet Housing NSW income eligibility criteria
- have already looked for private rental accommodation without success
- be assessed as able to afford private rental
- be assessed as able to sustain private rental
- not have a debt from a previous Tenancy Guarantee
- not have a current Tenancy Guarantee
- have agreed to the conditions for receiving a Tenancy Guarantee.
Where are Tenancy Guarantees available?
Tenancy Guarantees are issued by Housing NSW and selected community housing providers.
Tenancy Guarantees are issued by the following community housing providers:
| Organisation |
Location/Areas Covered |
Telephone |
| Anglicare North Coast |
Maclean
Grafton |
02 6645 1244
02 6643 4844 |
| Community Housing Mid North Coast |
Coffs Harbour (Coffs Harbour, Taree, Kempsey, Port Macquarie) |
02 6652 8877 |
| Homes Out West |
Deniliquin (Albury and Deniliquin) |
03 5881 4182 |
The Housing Trust
|
Wollongong |
02 4227 1166 |
| Hume Community Housing Association Co Ltd |
Fairfield (Fairfield, Liverpool) |
02 9724 0554 |
| Newmacq Community Housing Co Ltd |
Newcastle (Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Upper Hunter, Muswellbrook, Singleton and Cessnock) 02 4929 5537 |
02 4929 5537 |
| North Coast Community Housing Co Ltd |
Lismore, Ballina, Tweed 02 6621 8644 |
02 6621 8644 |
| Sapphire Coast Tenancy Scheme Inc |
Bega (Bega, Eden, Merimbula) 02 6492 2587 |
02 6492 2587 |
Shoalhaven Community Housing Scheme Ltd /
Eurobodalla Community Housing Inc |
Nowra (Nowra, Shoalhaven and St George’s Basin)
Batemans Bay
|
02 4421 5145
02 4472 7681 |
Wentworth Area Community Housing Association Ltd (WACH)
|
Penrith (Penrith, St Marys, Blue Mountains, Hawkesbury) 02 4731 5851 |
02 4731 5851 |
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