Our History, Our People
The Purpose of Strata Owners Alliance
in 2019 Adam Promnitz and Kym Murphy co-founded a grass-roots, community movement based on their own experience and dissatisfaction with the Strata industry.
Strata Owners Alliance has since expanded into a charitable advocacy group focused on the rights of all Owners and Occupiers to ensure equity for all groups living within Strata. The issues facing Owners/Occupiers are at odds with the Industry that has sprund up around Strata and governments lack understanding of the structure and importance of this sector of the housing market, especially as the most important weapon in the housing crisis.
Our Ethics
Our core commitments and organisational principles in brief
We are 100% volunteer-run.
We do not have salary positions.
We do not have any industry affiliation or sponsorship.
We are not “Selling Strata” – we are advocating better Strata.
Our statement of Purpose
Our constitutional statement of purpose as held with the ACNC
The Strata Owners Alliance Inc. is established to be a charity whose purpose is to advance social or public welfare for disadvantaged groups and individuals in Strata living by:
- • empowering Owners and Occupiers through education via the provision of free information and resources to all.
• offering direct relief from immediate stress and unfair financial penalties through innovative methods such as direct strata advocacy representing Owners and Occupiers’ positions to industry managers and Strata committees, dispute resolution assistance and personalised communications directed at decision makers and Strata stakeholders that boldly address the serious impacts of Strata mismanagement and disputes on the mental health and unsustainable financial burdens of at-risk individuals.
• utilising our unique channels with regulators to put direct pressure on individual industry players for specific unfair or predatory actions and leveraging our general expertise to ensure Owners and Occupiers have the means and pathways to enforce their existing legal rights and protections with
confidence.
• Establishing and maintaining relationships with essential service providers and social services to promote the understanding of the special needs of disadvantaged Owners and Occupiers in strata that are incompatible with outdated service solutions, relief options, concessions and other assistance that caters to traditional housing only.
• proactively ensuring that Strata Corporations understand and fulfil their obligations under National and State Disability Acts, thereby preventing discrimination and following up where these obligations are not met.
The Strata Owners Alliance Inc. is also established to tackle the matters of law, policy and practice for the welfare of these disadvantaged groups and individuals within the culturally and logically diverse microcommunities that make up Strata by:
- • ensuring that Strata law and policy is fairly administered and considered by governments and public departments to maintain its important role as a bastion of affordable housing in Australia.
• lobbying and consulting lawmakers for change or relief in areas where legislation and safety nets do not protect lower socioeconomic groups, especially aged pensioners and dependent government benefit recipients, from being forced from their homes.
• lobbying Owners, governments, and other interest groups to address the lack of competition in the industry and restore the ability of Strata Corporations to enter fair contracts to help relieve increases to cost of living for stressed and struggling Owners and Occupants.
• advocating for industry regulation where none exists to hold bad players accountable and return rights to Owners and Occupiers.