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A large and unprecedented new alliance of business, health, sustainability, environmental, consumer, building and housing organisations are today calling on all political parties to prioritise a ‘pollution busting home reno programme’ for hundreds of thousands of homes if elected.

Consumer NZ, the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation, Greenpeace Aotearoa, the Sustainable Business Network, Lawyers for Climate Action, the New Zealand Institute of Building, Bayleys, Vector, JLL, Bunnings, Architectural Designers New Zealand, Sustainability Trust, Community Housing Aotearoa, the Insulation Association of New Zealand, Knauf Insulation, Beca, Community Energy Network, Passive House Institute New Zealand, SuperHome Movement, eHaus, Inzide, Architectus, Professor Robyn Phipps, and the Green Building Council have joined forces to ask political parties to promise a ‘fully funded ambitious’ roll out to improve at least 200,000 homes.

Find out more, and join the call below

Home | Homes we deserve We’re calling on every political party to promise now that, if part of the next government, they will have within six months of being elected a fully funded ambitious plan to roll out a pollution-busting home reno programme for at least 200,000 homes homes within nine years which will:

In New Zealand we have children waking up in cold bedrooms under 4 degrees

A study by BRANZ and The University of Auckland of more than 2000 New Zealand children has found nearly half are sleeping in bedrooms that are too cold - at or below 19C - with the temperature in some rooms dropping to under 4C by the morning.

"It's just really sad that some people don't have the right living conditions," 12 yr old research participant Arya Naidu says

"I believe that every child, every family, deserves to have a warm and dry home that they can just live in and be happy in."

It is sad. We need better, warmer homes that people can afford to heat properly

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/443288/half-of-children-studied-sleeping-in-bedrooms-that-are-too-cold-study-says?fbclid=IwAR1O_vJDjkJ9wK0amvJ_zljj1o5KuSqq0Rxh_nBLzAkBwv532bvXWRT4uZc

Half of children studied sleeping in bedrooms that are too cold, study says A study of more than 2000 New Zealand children has found nearly half are sleeping in bedrooms that are too cold.

The Healthy Homes Standards are an important step towards ensuring New Zealand's renters live in warm, dry homes. With a HomeFit check you'll get an indication of how a property stacks up, and if it meets the standards.
“We’re encouraging our landlords because it’s a great selling point to have a home that’s warm and dry when it comes to market" Helen O’Sullivan, CEO of Auckland property managers Crockers.

What property managers think of the cold, damp homes they look after The quest for healthy rentals is often portrayed as a battle between sickly tenants and their merciless landlords. But where do the middlemen (and women) sit on the issue? It's hard not to view New Zealand's quest for liveable rental housing as an intense, politically-charged feud: on one side ar

We're really excited to team up with Auckland Council to get our HomeFit certification included on LIM reports from April!

This is a big step towards warmer, drier, healthier homes.
Listen to our chief executive Andrew Eagles on RNZ's Nine to Noon this morning 👇

Auckland Council to add HomeFit check on LIM reports Auckland residents will soon be able to access more information about the health and safety of their home, with Auckland Council moving to include a home-fit check on a property's LIM report. The Council has teamed up with the Green Building Council, which offers a HomeFit Certification, and from Ap...

A year ago we launched HomeFit to help New Zealanders understand how healthy our homes are and support you in make the necessary changes.
So far we've had more than 24,000 go through the checklist
We know our homes aren't good enough, hopefully we've helped make things easier
If you're renting or a landlord a HomeFit certification also gives peace of mind that the home meets the Residential Tenancies Act and the Health Homes Standards.
If you haven't already, make sure you check out homefit.org.nz

With this cold snap continuing it might pay to think twice before cranking up the temperature dial on every household appliance and spare a thought for your power bill.

How much does that electric blanket actually cost to run? What it costs to run your electric blanket and towel rail, boil the jug and take a hot shower.