My rental has been over 30’C every night for 5 months, with temperatures in bedroom (fibro walls & tin roof) reaching 50’C + daily between November and March. Heat fatigue illness.

My neighbour smokes so I cannot open my windows. My bedroom has western and northern walls. NDIS refused my application for Airconditioning because I rent. I suffer medical conditions from heat exhaustion and literally am driven out of the building as it’s like an oven. I rent from DOH and I need a heat monitor to prove this crisis.

Every human has a right to a clean and appropriate environment to live in.


I lived in a home with no heating or cooling with my junior-primary aged son. The doors had large spaces under them so you could not use a heater and animals would regularly come to live with us. In summer, all my candles melted. In winter, we rugged up in jumpers and blankets and pretended to be camping.


Despite looking for the positives, it was a very unhealthy way to live. My son could not sleep alone because the house was so cold and damp, it gave him asthma. Added to that was the black mould.


The changes in temperature led to condensation in the ceiling and on the walls, creating a black mould that could not be killed. The real estate agent wouldn’t respond to it, saying it was my fault for not turning on the shower fan (the mould was throughout the home, not in the bathroom only) I didn’t have enough money to leave so my child this every day.was exposed to this for 3 years.


Now we live in a healthy home and he has not had asthma since. Everyone deserves to grow up without being exposed to this unhealthy environment.

Because everyone deserves the right to live in a house with basic standards. Housing conditions can impact overall health and mental/emotional wellbeing of those who live in it. Poor housing conditions can contribute to the cycles of inequality, poverty and ill-health. If landlords are not prepared to pay for basic upgrades such as insulation, they should not be allowed to demand premium rental prices!

It’s a basic right.

It’s a basic human right


If anyone in our society suffers we all suffer directly or indirectly


Good accommodation promotes better health

Physically & mentally


Especially important for children & their development & the elderly


Without it

the individual suffers

Families suffer

Communities suffer

There is a huge drawdown on government services especially health services


Changes must be legislated as many owners are only interested in their own pockets