During the summer, numerous renters nationwide endured uncomfortably high indoor temperatures, with homes averaging 25 degrees.

Better Renting Executive Director Joel Dignam told Oliver Peterson on Perth Live, “It’s been a pretty rough summer for people renting in Perth, to give you a sense, the rental homes were spending about 16 hours a day above 25 degrees Celsius, and the healthy range you want to be sitting in is 18 – 24 degrees.”

“Unfortunately, the trend is things are going to get hotter and so the rental homes are barely coping already. It doesn’t paint a pretty picture for the future.”

“This is not something that renters can solve for ourselves, and it is going to need the state government and Commonwealth to play more of a role in creating some minimal rental standards,” Mr Dignam continued.

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