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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
National
Toby Vue

'Consumed by anguish': Tenants sue ACT govt over evictions

Yvette Van Loo is one of the long-term public housing tenants taking court action against the ACT government for its growth and renewal program. Picture by Elesa Kurtz

Three long-term Housing ACT tenants are suing the territory government for allegedly breaching human rights legislation by seeking to evict them as part of the 10-year public housing growth and renewal program.

Yvette Van Loo and two other women, who asked to remain anonymous, have filed ACT Supreme Court claims that allege the government sought to interfere with their homes in an "unpredictable and unjust manner" by seeking to remove them pursuant to the Growing and Renewing Public Housing program.

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