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More Australians than ever live in rented homes, many of which get far too hot. With summers getting longer and hotter, keeping millions of people cool should be a national housing policy priority.
Energy poverty puts people’s health and wellbeing at risk, but many vulnerable households go undetected. Trusted intermediaries, such as doctors and community workers, can help solve this problem.
Improving the performance of nearly 11 million existing homes will make a much bigger difference to housing energy costs and emissions than an incoming 7-star energy standard for new homes.
Past claims about the costs of 5-star and then 6-star home energy ratings were overblown. We are hearing similar claims about the new 7-star standard, but good design makes it a good deal for owners.
Housing standards in Australia have slipped behind the rest of the world. But momentum is growing to revive past ambitions to build the best homes we can.
One quarter of monitored social housing properties recorded winter temperatures below World Health Organisation standards for more than 80% of winter, new research shows.
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Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor in Research & Innovation, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in Housing, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University
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Research Associate, HHAUS research group, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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PhD Candidate, Swinburne University, and Lecturer in Public Health, Torrens University Australia
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Lecturer, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Energy Efficiency Researcher, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Geography, University of Wollongong
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Adjunct Research Fellow, School of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University
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Senior Professor, Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC), University of Wollongong
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Research Fellow in Human Geography, RMIT University
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Research Fellow in Climate Change Adaptation, La Trobe University
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Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Sustainable Buildings Research Centre, University of Wollongong
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Research Fellow at Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space, University of Wollongong