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Matt Ball: Advocacy Manager at the Property Investors Federation discusses the Healthy Homes deadline · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: D day tomorrow for the landlords of the country's five
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five thousand rental properties. From tomorrow, all
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  Speaker 1: rental properties must meet the government's Healthy Home Standards, which
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  Speaker 1: include rules around heating, insulation, ventilation, draft stopping, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: Matt Ball as the advocacy manager at the Property Investors Federation.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Matt, Good morning, Ryan, how are you good?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you? Now, when I say all rental properties, this
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  Speaker 1: doesn't well, I'm assuming still doesn't include cayeing or order right,
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  Speaker 1: all of their homes don't have to be up to
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  Speaker 1: scratch or does that include them too?
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  Speaker 2: I thought they had to be up to date last year,
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  Speaker 2: but I may be wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I'd like to see some numbers on how
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  Speaker 1: well that's coming for them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, me too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, for the rest of the private landlords. So, Matt,
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  Speaker 1: do you think most are up to standard already?
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  Speaker 2: It's interesting, Ryan, So I would have said yesterday a
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  Speaker 2: year that most were up to standard, but there was
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  Speaker 2: some interesting reporting out yesterdays that said maybe quite a
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  Speaker 2: few more than I thought.
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  Speaker 1: Aren't as an like close to eighty percent.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, something like that. I would have thought. I would
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  Speaker 2: have thought in the high eighties would have been through
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  Speaker 2: this by now. I mean there's been plenty.
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  Speaker 1: Of notice, right, And this sample that you're talking about,
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  Speaker 1: one thousand random rental properties in the last two months,
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  Speaker 1: found only twenty three percent were fully compliant.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's quite a low number. When you look at
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  Speaker 2: the numbers in detail, it seems like there are five
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  Speaker 2: different standards, right, So a lot of landlords are compliant
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  Speaker 2: with it's one or two or three of the standards,
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  Speaker 2: but there might miss out on only one. So apparently
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  Speaker 2: draft stopping only fifty percent of landlords up to speed
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  Speaker 2: on that one, and that that is the reason for
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  Speaker 2: the low compliance rate. So there's still a lot more
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  Speaker 2: heaters in houses, there's a lot more insulation, there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot more moisture barriers, all that sort of stuff. So
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  Speaker 2: homes are definitely drier and warmer, and we see that
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  Speaker 2: in the census data. But yeah, there's still a few
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  Speaker 2: people who do need to fully.
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  Speaker 1: Comply, okay, and what happens to them if they don't?
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  Speaker 1: They can the tenants can go to the make a complaint,
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  Speaker 1: They can potentially get a fine, but presumably there's a
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  Speaker 1: period of discussion that could happen between that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the recommended approach in this is, you know, if
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  Speaker 2: you're a tenant and your home's not quite up to scratch,
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  Speaker 2: have a chat with your landlord and see if they'll
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  Speaker 2: get the work fixed, and then if they won't, that's
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  Speaker 2: when you can start taking action through the tenancy tribunal.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's a lot of variation around the country.
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  Speaker 2: For example, and this is the extreme, but I've seen
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  Speaker 2: homes where it's definitely not up to scratch, but the
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  Speaker 2: tenant is living in it. They're very happy because they
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  Speaker 2: get a cheap rent, and the landlord's happy because the
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  Speaker 2: tenant's happy. So both parties will just keep it quiet.
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  Speaker 2: There'll be plenty of that going on around the country,
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  Speaker 2: but by and large, I think most landlords will get
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  Speaker 2: things fixed if the tenant asks them to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Really they should do it proactively straight away.
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  Speaker 1: Matt Appreciate Times Wanting Matt Bull from the Property Investors Federation.
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