Wearing multiple layers of clothing and going to bed early is one of the many ways Ada Fitzgerald-Cherry keeps warm in her Canberra share house.A new study has found the average rental house went below this level for 17 hours per day"It's a little depressing but often when I get home from work in the afternoon, I just get straight into bed because it's cold," Ms Fitzgerald-Cherry said.In attempts to keep warm by using heating, her daily energy bill has jumped from $3.
The report found renters were spending three times more in energy to warm up their dwellings than home owners with energy-efficient properties in the same suburbs. Better Renting executive director Joel Dignam said health risks from substandard rental properties needed to be addressed."Renters told us about getting sick more often, about a constant state of worry over energy costs, and an unending battle against mould and damp."Mr Dignam called on governments to implement minimum energy efficiency standards for rental homes.
One of the common problems that emerged was many renters were still unable to get warm even when they chose to run their costly, ineffective heaters because their rental homes were not built to be energy efficient.Rental prices have risen across Australia over the past year.
75 houses from each state… very likely they were houses inhabited by people who prefer smoking, ice, weed and so forth than to pay for heating.
So do home owners not all of us are Rockefellers and struggle to make ends meet in ordinary houses
Go buy a house and stop renting!
Does this only become a problem when somebody rents a house? abcnews auspol
Well, the S/E bottom half of Australia anyway.
No insulation, no heating, no care. Landlords extract money from those less fortunate and impede any attempt the renter makes to improve their life
Landlords should also be required by law to wipe the tenants arse as needed.
With Australian winters I have never had a need to heat my house. I think this is blown out of proportion. This problem is surely not widespread
In a past Melb rental, I could never get warm with the unit's heater. The floors and thin windows had large gaps to the outside, no insulation. I complained a lot. I stopped using the heater, my bills were too high, so I rugged up, used an electric throw and an oil heater. 😒
Owners, renters, it's the same. Too expensive to heat the house. 14.6 in here this morning.
As a student living through Melbourne winters I thought this was normal.
It's one thing to keep your home warm but it's another if you can afford it? Roof insulation on its own does absolutely nothing. If your to keep an abode warm without using energy the entire home needs to be insulated. Roof, walls, treated glass, north facing build. A lot to it
My daughter rented a home without heating as it’s not a requirement for landlords to supply this basic human right! There were toadstools and mould growing from the inside walls.
I haven't had the heater on all winter cause my bill has increased
Patience. Global warming will have this sorted in 5 years.
So do many many “owners” who can’t afford to put their heating on or generations before us whose only heating was what they cooked on.
I lived in Canberra for several years and yes it is unbelievablely cold compared to WA... I feel for renters during winter there... the only reason I have heating this winter in WA is because I have an electricity credit... otherwise it is rug up :)
So do home owners..... At least renters don't have to sell their homes 🏠 in tought times.
Minimum temp of 18°c? Lol. Most Australians have their aircon set below that!
Min healthy temp is 18c?! Bullshit. What a joke. It is totally safe and healthy for humans to live below 18c. Put on a jumper and stop being a sook.
Yes we can thank Albo for lying to us all about cost of living. He did a total disaster and a liar. Prices of everything have skyrocketed out of control with no end in sight since he took office. All he does is go overseas and on holidays.
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