Throw in rising energy prices and a shortage of affordable, available homes, and many are wondering if there’s any relief in sight.
Keeping warm in winter consumes Murray Mayes’ life. Their public housing unit regularly drops below 18 degrees, to temperatures considered unhealthy by the World Health Organisation.
The results were worse in NSW and Victoria . WA recorded 83 per cent, and in Queensland where no tenants studied had a median temperature below this threshold, the homes were too cold 18 per cent of the time. “It does mean we have people stuck in these particularly bad properties. Another thing that’s gotten worse over the past year is the inability to do anything about it,” Dignam said.
Other renters who took part in the study said their homes’ frigid temperatures cost them hundreds in bills, exacerbated health issues and made them feel socially isolated, given they felt their home was too uncomfortable to socialise in.
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