One evening, just hours after paying rent, Emma — whose name has been changed for privacy and security reasons — and her housemate were made homeless.

It began with a disagreement with their head tenant, acting as their landlord, over the cause of a stain in their share house in Palmerston, a satellite city of Darwin.

"He [became] very abusive and disrespectful to us, and that evening he came barging into our rooms asking us to leave," she said.

Emma locked herself in the bathroom and called the police.

When police arrived, they explained Emma and her housemate were entitled to a certain number of days to leave the property, but there was little else they could do.

Due to the perceived danger, Emma and her housemate chose to leave immediately.

"The fact that he seemed completely unfa

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