Anna, London18 January 2011
As a private tenant I have lived in many poorly insulated, damp homes. Going to bed wearing five layers and a woolly hat is certainly not fun, and it's frustrating to know that by using our hugely inefficient heating I'm also contributing unnecessarily to runaway climate change.
The heating bill in my current shared house came to £750 for one month over Christmas, and we simply can't afford to heat the house for the coming month as a consequence. It's time that the Government took action to help tenants like us.
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