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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Originally, council housing was supposed to be available for everyone.
    A socially funded, reasonably priced, decent accommodation for anyone.
    With the added bonus for the council that they have properties vulnerable people could be housed in at cost.

    And there are still legacy tenants from those days happily living in their council places.

    R2B was brought in, with the stated idea of giving long-term renters the opportunity to buy at a discount.
    A leg up onto owning and running their own house.
    Unfortunately with the way it was implemented, it ended up gutting the supply of council houses, until we reach today.
    Where only the most vulnerable have a sniff of a chance of being allocated a council house.







  • I’ll write a quick gist for anyone coming along:

    One gas boiler in the house, each room has a smart TRV.
    PIR sensor to set room presence, each window has an opening mag sensor. HASS has a general presence sensor set.

    Each room’s temperature is targeted based on presence and window status:
    For each room, if person is home at all, and has been in the room for 5 mins, and the window is closed, TRV to 19, boiler on if <19.
    If the room presence is negative and the window is closed, drop TRV target to 16.
    If the window is open, drop the TRV target to 7.

    There is a little more detail that that in the article, but that’s the basics.