18 District News
Written by: Lu Nuojun
2021-07-10 16:41
Last update date: 2021-07-10 16:45
The hot weather continues, and the room temperature of sub-divided houses and rooftop houses is higher than that of ordinary units, and the living environment is even worse.
A group released a survey today (10th) and found that under hot weather, grassroots citizens spent more on water, electricity and miscellaneous bills. More than 80 adults also rely on drinking more water to cool off due to financial considerations.
Due to financial constraints, patients with colorectal cancer can only rent a cubicle room. There is no air-conditioning in the room. The temperature rises in summer and is bitten by a group of lice at night. The group urges the government to set up a summer energy source. Subsidies to relieve the embarrassment of grassroots households.
From 7 to 27 of last month, the Joint Care for Grassroots Housing used home visits, online and telephone interviews to visit sub-districts, squatters or tin houses living on rooftops, top floors of buildings, and units without ventilation and light windows. Waiting for people who are not suitable for housing to understand the hot summer’s impact on their living conditions, living expenses, and heat dissipation methods. Finally, a total of 203 questionnaires were returned, and the final number of valid questionnaires was 150.
The results of the survey found that under the hot weather from June to August this year, grassroots citizens increased their spending on water, electricity, and miscellaneous bills. Among the respondents, 119 (79.3%) pointed out that the average monthly water bill had increased, 144 People (96%) reported an increase in their monthly electricity bills, and 101 people (67.3%) said that incidental charges had also increased.
The group also pointed out that due to the excessive collection of water and electricity by some owners, the unsuitable housing water and electricity expenditure is higher than that of ordinary households. Among them, 38 (25.3%) respondents have monthly electricity bills of between 201-400 yuan, and 34 (22.7%) are in Between 601-800 yuan, 28 (18.7%) were between 401-600 yuan, and 24 respondents had monthly electricity bills of more than 1,000 yuan.
Uncle Hua, 71, lives alone in a cubicle in Sham Shui Po, with a monthly rent of 2,200 yuan. He has just completed a colorectal cancer operation. Even if he is very ill and has lice, he still has to stay at home for a long time and cannot "go around." ".
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In addition, about 60% of the respondents who have an independent electricity meter provided by their owners pointed out that the electricity charges charged by their owners were higher than the electricity company's pricing. Among them, 38 (25.3%) of the respondents charged 1.5 yuan per kilowatt-hour, followed by 1.6 RMB (15.3%), 20 people (13.3%) charged RMB 1.7 or more.
The survey results also show that people of all types who are unsuitable for housing in the face of hot summer will at most use fans, air conditioners and drink plenty of water to cool off the heat.
According to the organization, the proportion of working people who use electrical appliances such as fans and air-conditioning to cool off after returning home is relatively high (85.56% and 86.67% respectively), while those who are unemployed or unemployed are likely to reduce their use of air-conditioning based on economic considerations (66.67%) , Fans and drinking water are used to cool off the heat (84.85% and 83.33% respectively).
Housewives, schoolchildren aged 18 or below, and elderly people aged 60 or above, because they spend a long time at home, mainly use fans and drink plenty of water to cool off the heat, and only use air-conditioning to cool down when necessary.
At the press conference, two neighbours shared their living conditions. Uncle Hua, 71, lives alone in a cubicle in Sham Shui Po, with a monthly rent of 2,200 yuan. There are no windows and air-conditioning in the house. The lice infestation is especially serious in summer.
He said that because he had just completed the colorectal cancer surgery, he had to stay at home for a long time and could not go around. However, the hot weather and frequent "lice bites" caused poor mental health due to lack of sleep at night. louse".
He also pointed out that because of the need to purchase anti-lice products, the monthly increase in expenditure ranges from 200 to 300 yuan.
Brother Qiang (a pseudonym), a resident of the Prince's sub-divided housing, said that he and his wife now live in a unit with a face value of about 80 feet, and the monthly rent is RMB 4,500.
He said that most people go to the community center during the day and will not stay at home. If the air conditioner and fan are not turned on, the average temperature in the house will be 30 degrees. There is no convection window or exhaust fan in the house. The house is especially hotter when cooking. "The room is small and hot." There are more collisions between him and his wife, and the number of quarrels increases.
In order to save electricity bills, he will wait until his wife comes home from work and start the "cool air conditioner" at 11 o'clock in the evening, but will wake up and turn it off at about 7 o'clock in the morning.
Brother Qiang also pointed out that the electricity bill rises with the temperature. In summer, the monthly electricity bill is about 400 yuan. "As far as I know, the owner has a government subsidy for electricity, but the owner will not return the subsidy to the neighborhood. The amount of electricity bill is more than the price set by the power company), which seems to be a double profit." Although he knows that there will be tenancy control to regulate the problem of overcharging of water and electricity by the landlord, does he have any deterrent effect on the penalty and how the government enforces it? Questioned.
Concerned about the joint proposal of grassroots housing, the government may consider providing grassroots citizens with "summer energy subsidies" and disburs them directly to tenants, reducing the pressure on residents of subdivided housing in summer energy expenditures, and at the same time relaxing the eligibility for the cash subsidy pilot program, and Efforts should be made to shorten the legislative time for rent control and increase the penalties for owners of over-collecting water and electricity. In the long run, existing land should be used to build public housing, such as brownfields, leased land for private amusement parks, idle agricultural land or urban redevelopment. Let grassroots citizens who have been waiting for public housing for many years go upstairs as soon as possible to improve their living environment.
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