Minimum rental standards push reignites
Labour leader Andrew Little’s Healthy Home Guarantee Bill (No 2), which has had a chequered passage to date, will be debated by Parliament on Wednesday.
The bill aims to set minimum standards around insulation, heating, ventilation and drainage which all landlords would have to comply with before they could legally rent out their properties.
Just over a week ago, the Cabinet approved the final details of the new insulation and smoke alarm requirements contained in the Residential Tenancies Amendment Bill.
But Labour’s housing spokesperson Phil Twyford said a new Otago University study showed the new insulation standards were inadequate.
The study, which was released last week, found that properly insulating all houses to current 2008 standards would reduce child hospitalisations by 6%, he said.
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