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

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“People who rent are stuck in homes that make us sick because they are too cold. Unlike owner occupiers, we can’t make the needed changes to address this,” the post read.

“Our mental health is affected by the cold house,” one renter responded.

“I had to stay in bed under the blanket to study and do my homework or read a book at night as it is too cold.”

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