Hecs for the home: households warm to the idea of a loan scheme to leap from gas to electricity

Low-risk debt could help those stuck in poorly insulated homes vulnerable to summer heat and winter chillsWhen Elsa Evers bought her home an hour's drive south of Sydney, she and her partner began future-proofing it by adding solar panels and disconnecting the gas to get off fossil fuels and warm their leaky, chilly house.Four years on, though, Evers is facing mounting obstacles to that goal, not least higher interest rates and rising costs for her three children .Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading...