Single mum Savannah Victor says she sleeps in the lounge room with her kids to escape northern WA heat because it is the only room with air conditioning.
Savannah Victor struggles to keep her home cool during the wet season .Advocates say tenants in public and remote community housing are being forced to live in unreasonably hot houses .
Stretching between October and April, wet season temperatures in Broome, 2,000 kilometres north of Perth, routinely average close to 40 degrees with little relief after dark. Her landlord — Western Australia's Department of Communities — said she would need to pay out of her own pocket to install air conditioning which the department would also need to approve.
"Most of the people are going for boxed-up air conditioners because they can't afford split type," he said.
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