could exacerbate the poor housing conditions many in the UK are experiencing as people can no longer afford to heat their homes to ward off damp and mould.
While students are eligible for the Government’s £400 energy bill discount, Mr Allingham said this had been “fraught with issues”. “We’ve got a group chat and every time someone puts on the heating on they ask in the group chat if they can turn it on for an hour.” He has had to ask his university for mitigating circumstances as the mould in his home has made him feel unwell
“So I just got very stressed and just didn’t go today because I was thinking about how to deal with this.”