Cold homes make health problems worse. One housing organization is saving the NHS thousands by keeping residents warmPicture the scene: you come down with flu,and capture to bed. Your house is both cold and damp, so you develop complications that necessitate a stay in hospital. Once your strength is up, and you’ve been treated,you return domestic. Your house is still cold, still damp. The conditions aren’t conducive to your already precarious health, or so you return,wearily, to your doctor.
This catch-22 affects thousands of households in Britain. Much of the housing stock built during the big building drives in the 1970s is poorly insulated, and not particularly well maintained. Heating your domestic becomes expensive,and the entire building is energy inefficient.
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Source: theguardian.com