Energy crisis: How living in a cold home affects your health
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on November 8, 2022
And there's the emotional toll all of this takes, too.
"We've got families actually turning their cookers off, their televisions, their heating. The only thing they've got on is a fridge," says Billy McGranaghan, founder of Dad's House, a charity supporting single fathers in the UK. He also runs two foodbanks, open to anyone, in London.
"It's destroying a lot of families' relationships," he adds. Some households are "walking on eggshells" because there's no money to pay for a child's much-needed new shoes, for example. While tensions . . .
