A new report from the University of Adelaide has found the rental housing sector must set minimum standards for energy performance to protect the health and wellbeing of vulnerable Australians.
A new report from the University of Adelaide has found the rental housing sector must set minimum standards for energy performance to protect the health and wellbeing of vulnerable Australians.
The research - Warm, cool and energy-affordable housing solutions for low-income renters - released today, provides essential evidence on the vulnerability of public and private tenants to energy hardship.
Energy hardship – where households cannot afford to heat and cool their home or run appliances within it – has become a pressing issue in recent years, particularly for those living in the rental sector.
“Barriers to improving living conditions vary across the private rental sector and social housing sector so a range of different interventions will be needed.’’
Dr Lyrian Daniel
Tenant households are unequally exposed to energy hardship because of poor building quality and weak regulation of the sector.
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