Thread by @ScottwbMcAulay

So…a developer has the least energy efficient homes built it can get away with (for profit), and then a landlord buys the home/s to rent out (for profit) then judging by U.K. gov figures typically barely maintains it…then tenants pay an obscene, unnecessarily high energy bill?

It ain’t unintentional that there’s plenty articles about how much running certain activities in the home will cost you energy-wise AND NOTHING ABOUT BUILDING STANDARDS BEING ABYSMAL and that tenants have basically no say in shaping the energy efficiency of where they live.

“Oh no but you can’t general-“
From the Committee on Climate Change:

“That’s unfair to point out that our standards are sh-“
From Tado research:

“The standards of U.K. housing stock is not that ba-“
From the Passivhaus Trust

The U.K.’s housing system is working as designed: to make those making money maximum profit with energy efficiency being a very rare side-effect.

As energy prices + rents are raised for further profit, these two related aspects of the #CostOfLivingCrises must be challenged.

Please do not forget: one of the reasons your bills are going to be so high this winter is that our government have laid the energy efficiency standards bar on the floor, so developers do not have to build homes as efficient as has been very possible for decades, all for profit.

To look at Scotland as an example of the uncare for buildings and the people who live within them:

https://twitter.com/istreasatuatha/status/1567140222156128258