Everyone should have a healthy home
More people are renting than ever before…
… but our rental homes are making us sick.
They are too hot in summer and too cold in winter.
We need basic energy efficiency standards to ensure healthy homes for renters.
Legally enforceable energy efficiency standards would require property investors to make their rental properties safe.
These simple measures will turn a shack of shame into a healthy home:
Insulate ceilings
Provide window coverings
Seal doors and windows
Decent heating & cooling
This is basic stuff… it’s what every home should provide.
Healthy homes protect us from
Cold
Every year, the deaths of 10,000 Australians are attributable to cold.
Three in four Victorian tenants with children have difficulty heating or cooling their home to a healthy temperature.
Over one in four renters suffers from cold, mould or damp, and this leads to childhood asthma and respiratory infections.
Heat
Heatwaves are responsible for more deaths than all other extreme weather events combined.
During summer, some houses in Sydney have an average indoor temperature above thirty degrees.
Lack of access to an air-conditioner increases the risk of death during a heatwave.
Cost
Victoria's new heating standard is expected to save renters over $30 million a year.
Minimum standards could save rental households $1000 per year.
In NSW, rental standards would collectively save renters almost $1 billion per year.
“When it's cold, everything hurts. At night, I sometimes have to use up to fourteen layers of woollen blankets, two wool doonas, wool underlay, wool clothing, and hot water bottles, just to get a good night’s rest.”
“Australians are getting hypothermia at home. Those most at risk are older women with pre-existing health conditions - renters like me, in my future. There is currently nothing to protect us”.
-Lisa, Tasmania
Campaign Partners
Organisations across Australia are supporting the campaign to ensure everyone can live in a health home.
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