This excellent video is a prime example of community working together, to understand, inform and support rental home needs for improving Energy Efficiency, in a practical and engaging way.
In 2024 a workshop was facilitated by the West End Resilience Group, in collaboration with the My Home Network, around understanding and supporting tenants rights, rental energy efficiency, how to reduce rental utilities bills (electric and gas), and access to supports and concessions. As a result of the workshop, this video was created in recognition that renters don’t have the same agency or capacity to retrofit their rental home, as this depends on landlords. But, there are no or low cost measures that can be taken to improve energy efficiency in a rental home.
We also recognise that social housing and private rentals are often the worst housing in terms of energy efficiency so renters pay a disproportionate amount on heating and cooling hence also the information on their rights, supports and concessions.
Huge thanks goes out to Warwick Jones who generously donated his time, energy and expertise in making this video. Thanks too to Deb Pach, Frankie Nugent, Barry Murfett, Wade Roberts and West End Resilience Network for their time and expertise.
This video is also being translated into other languages. Please get in touch if you’d like to be advised of where these can be accessed once completed, via development@masg.org.au