Early Data From An Aus Study Shows How Chilly Rentals Are My Frosty Nips Can Back That Up

A new study of Australian rental properties currently underway has already shown how unhealthily cold they get over winter, in an effort to push for better tenancy laws. As someone who lives in Melbourne’s least insulated sharehouse, I can confirm that winter is cooked. Or raw? The study conducted by tenants’ advocacy group Better Renting tests the temperature inside 70 rental homes over seven weeks in winter to see just how draughty and cold they get. Participants were given temperature monitoring devices to test how often their homes were below 18ºC — the recommended “safe and well-balanced” indoor temperature set by the World Health Organisation for a home during winter. The study was still underway in early July but the initial results published are… worrying. In its first fortnight executive director of Better Renting Joel Dignam