HOW DO WE MEASURE HHS SUCCESS?
On the back of the Insulation Regulations 2016, the Healthy Homes standards (HHS) was released in 2019. It provided a far more comprehensive overview and expectation for the living standards across rental properties in New Zealand.
The HHS covers five areas of the property: ventilation, draughts, drainage, insulation and heating. Even though the Insulation Regulations 2016 received Royal Assent just three years earlier, the expectation for insulation under the new HHS saw the
