Australian Renters Struggle in Cold Winter as Energy Costs Soared: Study

Australian Renters Struggle in Cold Winter as Energy Costs Soared: Study
Builders work on a new house in Melbourne, Australia, on Nov. 8, 2006. William West/AFP via Getty Images
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A new study has found that surging energy costs have become the latest problem for Australian tenants living in accommodation with “brutal” conditions over the winter.

The Cold and Costly report by the tenant advocacy organisation Better Renting measured temperature and humidity in over 70 rental homes across Australia through June and July and found that the temperatures in those homes fell below WHO’s safe threshold of 18°C (64°F) most of the time.
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