Healthy home: What is the right temperature for a house?

By Sara Phillips, 360info
Updated June 2 2022 - 9:57am, first published May 29 2022 - 7:00am
People have been told they must warm their homes in winter or risk getting sick. Picture: OakleyOriginals, Flickr.
People have been told they must warm their homes in winter or risk getting sick. Picture: OakleyOriginals, Flickr.

Policies worldwide focus on heating homes to a minimum temperature that has no evidence to support it. They cause vulnerable people needless distress.

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