Bevölkerung ist nicht in der Lage, ihr Zuhause ausreichend warm zu halten (2024)
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Von Geozofija
Bevölkerung ist nicht in der Lage, ihr Zuhause ausreichend warm zu halten (2024)
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Von Geozofija
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The complete analysis and detailed percentage values are provided below: https://www.geozofija.com/affordability-analysis-what-share-of-the-population-in-european-countries-cannot-afford-to-keep-their-homes-adequately-warm
Older homes are more difficult to insulate?
UK: no data because everyone has already died from hypothermia.
Hard to belive data. There seem there is some subjectivie bias here.
LT and LV beeing so appart is weird
In Lithuania, in my parents neighborhood everyone built 300-400 square meter „castles“ in the 1980’s and early 1990’s with very little insulation. It was done because heating used to cost practically nothing in Soviet times and early independence when we were closer to Russia. So now many people there, especially the elderly, heat only the first floor of the house and the bill is still like 400 EUR a month just for gas..
The issue being bigger in the south seems counterintuitive on first glance, but then we need to remember that homes in the north are built for keeping warmth in (for winter) and in the south for keeping heat out (for the summer).
For the same token, getting homes to cool down during summer heat tends to be a bigger problem up north, especially now when climate change has brought more heat waves than before.
I can set all the heaters to max if I want, if it’s freezing outside, it’ll never get above 15°C. Heat loss is too high.
I guess I can technically afford it because no one cares to check the calorimeters.
The underlying data is „based on poverty status“. I am very unhappy with how Eurostat delivers this data. Like they give a big table with percentages but it doesn’t say how they determine if someone can’t keep their home „adequately warm“. It doesn’t even say what „adequately warm“ is. Do they just assume that at some point down the „poverty status“ people will actually not pay for heating? Like for example in Germany more than 5% don’t have a heat supplier at all? Or they don’t actually use enough fuel/electricity to get the home „adequately warm“ because it’s too expensive?`
Very confusing statistic.
The cast iron curtain between the cold east and cold west
I think we should have included Ukraine so that people understand a scale of russians treat
Yeah makes sense. Insulation is nonexistent in houses built during the dictatorship. And it was pretty shit on the ones built during the bubble before the 2008 crisis lots of times.
On top of that salaries are shit and cost of living is high.
Lived both in Turkey and Greece, houses are way more warmer than Greece(natural gas is common), in Athens we were going outside to get warm in January
As a Portuguese person I can say with 100% certainty that our number is far higher than that.
Aww, I hope more people in my country and in Albania get a chance to stay warm
It was kinda shocking for me to notice how many houses in netherlands are not insulated, I was raised in Poland where house insulation is kinda standard. Since I live in nl, in all my houses winters were super cold.
In the east coast of Spain coast at least, I live without heating perfectly fine
What does it mean adequately warm?
We had friends who never put thermostat above 18°c…
I remember it was new year, outside was freezing cold with and they were all wearing t-shirts like it’s nothing!
It’s not cold, but it’s also not too comfortable. At home we are used to 21°C, 1° more and it’s like sauna
Living in Sweden in an south-facing apartment built in 1903. Never been below 20°c in the winter, and it easily reaches 30°c (and stays there) when temps go above 15°c.
blankets…
I pretty sure I heard reports that it is quite bad in the UK as well. So I assume the gray colour is due to missing data.
My grand mother in Hamburg, in 1982, lived in an old one bedroom flat, spending €800 a year to keep warm and have hot water. Forward 40 year here in Australia, it cost me AU$300, thats €170 to heat my insulate house last winter, using LPG or propane gas.
„adequately warm“ is sadly a subjective term. Apparently die to privacy reasons, these surveys do not allow for a specific temperature to be indexed, as it conveys behaviour.
But from direct observations, this includes families that think adequately warm means 23 degrees indoors and shorts and a t-shirt. And does not include people wearing thick sweaters and pants inside at 15 degrees Celsius.
Which, is wrong, imho. If a behavioural change could resolve this entire problem, we should not start bankrolling those individuals. This would leave much more funds to actually resolve the insulation issues in the real troubled houses containing people that, after sweaters, also have to wear coats. (Have never heard of those by the way)
The word “adequate” means something different in Greece than in Finland, I guess.
Energy prices are still to high. I live in an 1960 house with no insulation,central heating with gas, pre 2022 i payed 1300€ a year. Now i would pay 2700€ a year on gas. Switched to pellet stove since 2022.
heat pumps are making polish houses cold
Especially egregious in the EU: Our politicians insist to make housing and energy more and more expensive every day and this is what peak civilization looks like?